Sentier was born on Dartmoor and grew upon Exmoor. Today when not writing she may be found walking with the wilds, painting, spinning, weaving and knitting, cooking up hedgerow brews and gardening. And reading! She is passionate about biodynamics and and feels this method of gardening is vital if we are to help our earth cope with the increasing demands we humans place upon her. In this book she explains how this method can be easy, simple, cheap and super-effective an demonstrates how it works in whatever size of garden you have, from a window box to several acres. Find out more about her work including courses and taleweaving practices, see elensentier.wordpress.com. ~ Parent's Bookshelf feature, Green Parent December 2015/January 2016 issue

Synopsis: In "Gardening with the Moon & Stars", author and gardener Elen Sentier brings biodynamics to the ordinary gardener. Sentier is passionate about biodynamics. She feels it's vital to make organics and biodynamics available to as many people as possible if we are to help our earth cope with the increasing demands we humans place upon her. Biodynamics is easy, simple, cheap and super-effective; it's seriously good horticulture too, and it works in whatever size of garden you have, from a window box to several acres. "Gardening with the Moon & Stars" is written in plain down-to-earth language with lots of tips and hints to help you learn how easy it is to use the preparations and work with the star calendar. Critique: Unique, informative, exceptionally 'user friendly' in tone and substance, "Gardening with the Moon & Stars" is an extraordinary read and very highly recommended for community and academic library Gardening Studies and Metaphysical Studies instructional reference collections. For personal reading lists it should be noted that "Gardening with the Moon & Stars" is also available in a Kindle edition ($9.99). ~ Julie Summers, Midwest Book Review

Green fingers is a gift every gardener would love to have. Some people’s gardens thrive and others (mine for instance) stumble along. Gardening with the Moon and the Stars is the kind of book that gives your fingers a verdant quality. Rudolf Steiner, the remarkable Austrian philosopher and polymath, turned his thinking towards gardening and farming and applied these insights in a series of lectures that formed the basis for Biodynamics, nearly one century ago. Then, as Elen Sentier explains in her engaging and highly practical book, Maria Thun developed the star calendar to guide market gardeners in when to plant. Her experiments with radishes determined which times favoured roots, when leaves would flourish, when was best for flowers and what celestial timing proved best for fruits. Sentier explains not only the key biodynamic preparations, and why, four example, the cow’s horn works and the bull’s horn does not, for the key ‘500’ preparation. She slips in little bits of theory and highly practical suggestions as the pages fly by. You will learn how to make excellent compost (beating the heavy stems of broccoli with a hammer was a new tip for me at least!) and the joys of using wormeries. What comes over all through the book is the author’s great enthusiasm for her craft and the joy it gives her. That is contagious. This is a should-have book for any keen gardener and a must-have book for those gardeners who appreciate the vale of the remarkable insights that Steiner gave to those who love the land. ~ Murray Morison, JHP author