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THE SMART VEGGIE PATCH

By Terry Memory, Pan Macmillan, $29.99

Smartphones, smart TVs, smart cars — it must be time for smart gardening. Terry Memory’s , like Angelo Eliades’ garden on page 24, combines ancient agrarian traditions and modern technology to maximise yield with minimal expenditure of time, sweat and money. After surviving Victoria’s Black Saturday bushfires, Terry and wife Gemma relocated to southern Tasmania, determined to build a sustainable, self-reliant and organic future for themselves

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