Pleasant Place promotes the cross-pollination of art and gardening. Collaborations with both experts and artists make Pleasant Place both informative and practical as well as surprising and inspiring.Each issue is dedicated to a single garden related topic: a person, place, plant, phenomena, or technique. As you collect – either all issues or just your favourites – you built your own, personalised garden encyclopedia.
Allow us to introduce to you Compost Almighty, the magical elixir essential for happy gardens.
Including:
“I’m orange peels, I’m coffee grounds, I’m wisdom” – Marjory the Trash Heap tells the future
Compost: An introduction – what, why and how to compost, with illustrations by Noa Zuidervaart
Comfrey Cocktail – make your own Comfrey Feed
Worms are great and this is why – an ode to worms by Joline van Berkestijn with images by Jaap Scheeren
What to do with a whole lot of poo – Ton Hilhorst and Savitri Groag from Artis, the Amsterdam zoo, about their compost-system that thrives on elephant poo
Digital Compost – composting in Minecraft, the biggest videogame in the world
A set of garden miniatures by Hanna Something
The cover and inside cover are by Lou-Lou van Staaveren and Guus Kaandorp and graphic design is by fanfare
All packages are shipped with DHL from our store in Amsterdam, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
For small packages outside the EU, we use UPS Express Shipping and for big packages, we use PostNL (carries parcels over to local shipping companies).
40 pages, plus miniatures in centrefold, English
18 x 24 cm