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  • The Bumblebee Flies Anyway

  • A Year of Gardening and (Wild)Life
  • By: Kate Bradbury
  • Narrated by: Kate Bradbury
  • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (13 ratings)

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The Bumblebee Flies Anyway

By: Kate Bradbury
Narrated by: Kate Bradbury
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Finding herself in a new home in Brighton, Kate Bradbury sets about transforming her barren backyard into a beautiful wildlife garden. But while she's doing this Kate's neighbours continue to pave their gardens, the wildlife she tries to save is further threatened and she feels she's fighting an uphill battle.

Is there any point in gardening for wildlife when everyone else is drowning the land in poison and cement? If the dead could return, what would they say about the land we have taken, the ancient routes we have carved up, the wildlife we have lost?

©2018 Kate Bradbury (P)2019 Soundings
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Detailed sympathetic memoir of wild gardening

The way a garden serves as a reason to enjoy the microdrama (to us) of the living things that reside within it serves Bradbury as the platform for her self-examination in a time of distress and renewal. Bradbury (and a few friends sparely drawn) brings us to the modern opportunity the garden has as the antidote to the anthropocene. If we're going to use so much of the surface of the Earth to live on, she feels, we should steward it more generously for our fellow travelers. Her own experience of remaking a sterile back garden as a place worth visiting for herself and her beloved urban wildlife is affecting. And for the American reader, the generosity she shows her (more or less ) native house sparrows and (very) native European starlings is an interesting twist in perspective.

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