I have always been obsessed with books. Before Flamingo Estate, I owned a bookshop called Owl Bureau (pics here). It was from there that we began selling vegetables at the beginning of the pandemic, and eventually the space became the Flamingo Estate office. But those weekends working at Owl Bureau were among the happiest times of my life. I would sit and read book after book after book about plants, horticulture, art, and design. Which perhaps explains why I now spend every spare moment writing, making our own Flamingo Estate books. My next book, PLEASURE PRINCIPLES, is a combination of so many things I have read, loved, and been curious about in the natural world. I am very proud of it. It’s still available for pre-order, with copies shipping in a few months. For anyone interested in getting off their phone and reconnecting with the real world, I promise you: it exists between the pages of this book. I am already working on two more books for next year, so that one day we might have a library full of these green books, each one celebrating a different part of food, fragrance and Mother Nature x Richard