An Almost Impossible Thing - The radical lives of Britains pioneering women gardeners Erika Mayr Zuzanna Kofta (PO)

Zuzanna Kofta (PO)

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Sarah weaves her own story around those who taught her what it means to be a farmer

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An Almost Impossible Thing - The radical lives of Britains pioneering women gardeners Erika Mayr Zuzanna Kofta (PO)While working as Head of Libraries and Exhibitions at the Royal Horticultural Society, Fiona Davison came across a cache of letters from a young gardener who was denied a scholarship by the RHS on the grounds that she was female. Intrigued by what happened to young Olive, Fiona began to research the wider story of early female professional gardeners and discovered a group of pioneers who battled derision and prejudice to change expectations of what