The joy of salad — a classic book from Joy Larkcom revisited

Fiann Ó Nualláin talks with the doyenne of organic gardening on her ground-breaking work’s re-issue.

I had known of Joy Larkcom from my earliest forays into gardening — a neighbour lent me one of her books when he’d seen me planting alpine strawberries as a teenager.

I first met her in person at a GIY gathering in Waterford many years ago, it was just a brief introduction before we took or respective places on the different panel discussions and I didn’t full get the opportunity to thank her for her contribution to my gardening life.full get the opportunity to thank her for her contribution to my gardening life.