A Year in the Allotment is a small-format record of looking closely. Published by Black Lodge Press in 2024, it’s a 32-page A6, two-colour riso zine documenting a year on an allotment in North Yorkshire. That scale matters. Nothing here needs to be inflated into pastoral fantasy or lifestyle content; the pleasure is in the smaller shifts—weather, growth, waiting, repetition, the slow visual logic of things coming in and out of season.

The riso format suits the subject perfectly: modest, tactile, slightly irregular, close to the pace of note-taking rather than polished display. It reads less like a guide and more like a quiet accumulation of attention. A gardening zine, yes, but also a study in rhythm, labour, and the kind of visual patience allotments seem to teach better than most things.