Meir shalev my wild garden

I adore Meir Shalev as a writer and a thinker. When I saw that he had published a new book and that it was a gardening memoir I read it as soon as it became available.

I am an avid gardener and have read dozens of gardening memoirs but I have never read a gardening memoir like this one. How could it be anything like the American and British memoirs I have read? Shalev is an Israeli author who grew up on a Moshav (farming community).

His grandfather was a professional planter of grapes and as a child Shalev would watch his grandfather woking, completely enchanted. From his father his received lessons about the Bible and all matters of intellectual topics.

Meir shalev my wild garden farm

From both he learned the Talmud. He learned his lessons well and imparts some of his knowledge in this book.

No matter the topic, Shalev writes with great humor, charm, knowledge and honesty. I often went back and listened again to passages, allowing his words to s