36 EYES ON THE PIES Brendan Montague lifts the lid on a

family-run business 38 IN THE RUNNING World record-holding athlete Fiona

Oakes shares her story 40 OLD VERSUS NEW Polarised thinking will get us nowhere,

writes Tara Garnett

WISDOM & WELLBEING

42 A HEARTY BEAN-FEAST Miriam Sorrell dishes up a

vegan fusion 44 CONVERSATION WITH A TREE Peter Reason connects with the

presence and beauty of the sentient world 45 COMEDY OF WHIRRERS Matt Harvey has been tilting at windmills 46 TREES ARE OUR TEACHERS Satish Kumar muses on the wisdom of

a humble apple seed 48 THE HIGHEST FORM OF

SPIRITUALITY Claudia Goncalves celebrates the

higher power of activism

ARTS

50 A COMMON THREAD PL Henderson compares the work of

May Morris and Vanessa Barragão 55 A QUESTION OF STYLE Maria C. Havstam and Franz P. Schmidt

set the scene for an exhibition challenging the concept of fast fashion

60 CELEBRATING ‘OLD

NATURE WRITING’ Stephen Moss reviews The House

Without Windows by Barbara Newhall Follett and Jackie Morris and The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod by Henry Beston 62 PUTTING A PRICE ON NATURE Sara Melendro reviews Green and

Prosperous Land: A Blueprint for Rescuing the British Countryside by Dieter Helm 63 EATING FOR A COOLER PLANET Russell Warfield reviews We Are

the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer 64 TWO BRAINS ARE BETTER

THAN ONE Nat Dyer reviews The Divided Brain

directed by Manfred Becker 64 WHAT IS GOOD FOR THE MEADOW Jules Cashford reviews Thomas Berry: A

Biography by Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim and Andrew Angyal

66 MEMBERS 67 SHOP 68 LETTERS 70 ADVERTISEMENTS

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REVIEWS

58 YOUR HOUSE IS A JUNGLE Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson reviews Never

Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live by Rob Dunn 59 GOING NATIVE Kate Blincoe reviews Invasive Aliens:

The Plants and Animals From Over There That Are Over Here by Dan Eatherley

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