Book Club March 2026: Kathy Slack – Standard & Pro Members
March 19 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
When Kathy Slack was forced to quit her high-flying career in London: She was a wreck — burnt out, anxious, consumed by depression. But she found solace in an unlikely place: the veg patch. She put her hands in the soil and found a way to grow…and sow some small seeds of hope.
In Rough Patch, Kathy Slack draws us into the world of the kitchen garden to reflect on the lessons she learnt from the soil, along with sharing recipes inspired by the land.
Come join our Book Club where we’re talking to Kathy. PLUS Standard and Pro Members get a FREE ebook of Rough Patch.
Weaving together her own story of recovery with the year she spent growing and cooking her harvests, Kathy realises that the two are tightly bound together and that reconnecting with the earth could restore her hope and renew her life.
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NOON Book Club
19 March 2026
18:30 – 19:30
Via Zoom (you’ll receive the link via email and on your PDF ticket after signing up)
Open to all
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More about Rough Patch
Kathy settled into her Kathy experienced marauding pigs, transformed via insights from planting leeks, enjoyed recipes from an unchecked courgette glut and discovered why a radish seed is worth staying alive for.
The result is a candid, hopeful and sometimes funny story about the healing powers of nature. It’s a quiet manifesto for a more connected life.
About Kathy Slack
Jobless and dysfunctional, Kathy found solace in the garden. Despite her haphazard care and wandering attention, the seeds grew and her family ate their first homegrown meal. She was hooked. Kathy was global strategy director for a London advertising agency but left that London life for the Cotswolds in 2012 where she retrained as a chef and began a new career. Now she grows vegetables, creates recipes and hosts monthly supper clubs and teaches cookery classes.
She won The Young British Foodies Vegetable award and the Soil Association Best Blog award in 2019. She has also been shortlisted for a Garden Media Guild Award and won a Guild of Food Writers Award. Her debut cookbook, From the Veg Patch, came out in 2021 and was named one of Delicious Magazine’s top cookbooks of 2021.
She writes regularly for The Simple Things magazine, Borough Market’s Market Life, OcadoLife and others. Find more of her writing and free weekly recipes on her Substack.
Reviews for Rough Patch
Warm, humorous, nature-packed restoration … a story you can neither put down nor stop thinking about’ —Delicious ‘Book of the Month’
‘Full of hope and joy’ —Garden News
‘A healing year of sowing and reaping … [Kathy’s] tale of personal transformation is inspiring’ —Saga Magazine
