The White Hart Speaker Series: Margaret Roach

Event date:

Thursday, May 2, 2019 - 6:00pm

Event address:

The White Hart Inn

15 Under Mountain Road

Salisbury, CT 06068

Gardeners’ laments heard each fall like “the season’s almost over” don’t sit well with Margaret Roach, who has worked to make her Hudson Valley-Berkshires place a 365-day visual treat. It has been open for Garden Conservancy Open Days for 20-plus years. In this all-new version of her award-winning book, Margaret presents practical advice as well as an exploration of the underlying connections between the yearly cycles of gardening and the stages of life.

Margaret Roach, after 15 years at Martha Stewart Living and a decade each at Newsday and The New York Times, now writes the nationally acclaimed blog A Way to Garden (dot com) and is author of the 2011 corporate-dropout memoir, And I Shall Have Some Peace There, about walking away from “success” for a quieter life lived closer to nature. Her book The Backyard Parables blends garden memoir and how-to advice. Margaret was awarded the highest honor of the nation’s oldest horticultural society, Mass Hort, in 2018, for her contributions to horticulture.

“As a passionate, hopeful and often self-delusional gardener (the only kind of gardener there is!). Margaret Roach writes with intelligence, compassion, and most of all—sanity. Her work is a blessing.”- Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love

The White Hart Inn is a fully wheelchair accessible space with on-site van accessible parking. Microphones and speakers will be used at this event. If you have specific questions about the space or how an event can be made more accessible to you, please do not hesitate to contact us: info@oblongbooks.com.