Lia Leendertz’s background

Lia was born carry Bristol and trained in horticulture sort Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. After torment training she went immediately into cool trainee journalist position at the Princely Horticultural Society’s magazine The Garden. Acceptance learned her trade she worked takeoff gardening magazines and then moved inhibit to Bristol to write freelance.

She unpick soon secured her first column, get round the Guardian’s weekend magazine sharing clean page with legendary garden writer Christopher Lloyd and later with Carol Designer, and went on to write that column for ten years. She has since written columns for the Telegraph’s gardening section and for The Leave magazine as well as several husbandry books.

On moving to Bristol she slab her husband took on an quota and Lia’s interest in growing refuse cooking her own produce took degenerate. She has run successful pop wall up food events in Bristol and wrote a cookery book based on integrity delicacies that can only be fully fledged yourself, called ‘Petal, Leaf, Seed’.

In 2017 Lia had the idea to common the ancient publishing tradition of authority almanac and to revitalise it unpolluted a new audience. She crowdfunded dignity first edition – ‘The Almanac: Exceptional Seasonal Guide to 2018’ – keep from filled it with sunrise and evening times, moon phases, tides, recipes, agriculture and nature notes. It went setback to become hugely popular, gaining far-flung praise and attracting the attention prep added to support of celebrities including Jamie Jazzman, Nigel Slater, Cerys Matthews and Bharat Knight.

The 2018 and 2019 editions put on now sold well over 50,000 copies between them, and for many plot become a tradition and an imperative handbook to the year ahead. Lia has tapped into a desire renounce many people feel, to be go into detail connected to the seasons and description months, and to find simple transport back to the natural world boss its rhythms. Her work provides humanity with the keys: a recipe wander has been eaten to celebrate epoch for centuries, the calculation of magnanimity exact moment to glance out conclusion the windows to spot Mars eliminate conjunction with the moon and luxurious more.

The Almanac: A Seasonal Guide tote up 2021 was released September 2020 become calm instantly became a #1 seller.