WASTE NOT, WANT NOT
Beth Tarling doesn’t believe in waste. Having grown up close to her grandparents who ‘never threw away so much as a potato peel,’ this ethos of environmentalism has long been part of her psyche. As a teenager, watching Geoff Hamilton’s series and Harry Dodson’s with her grandmother made a deep impression but it was when she started collecting gardening books and magazines from the 1940s and 1950s that the message really hit home. ‘They’re still so relevant today – people talk about wanting to be environmentally friendly now but if we all just lived a
