Ann Somerset Miles - A Biography


Ann Somerset Miles is our new ‘food and cookery’ expert. She is passionate about the rural economy and gardening, fresh slow food and cooking (‘grow, cook, eat’), and supporting local enterprises – topics about which she writes regularly. With her photographer husband, Ray Quinton, Ann ran a magazine publishing and printing company for forty years. Simultaneously, they rebuilt a 16th Century farmhouse with the help of their three children, whilst creating a thriving and productive garden and orchard from an overgrown wilderness.

Ann writes for a number of magazines: her work has featured in ‘Grow it!’ and ‘Organic Gardening’; in ‘Organic Garden & Home’ and ‘Kitchen Garden Online’; in ‘Tastes of Britain’, ‘BBC Good Food’ and ‘BBC Olive’.  Other titles include ‘Goodwood’ magazine (on food, farming and other topics), ‘Hello’ magazine, ‘Patchwork & Quilting’, ‘Practical Caravan’, ‘Caravan’ and the club magazine of the ‘Camping and Caravanning Club’.

A former teacher, Ann is also a multi-media craftswoman and her instructional features appear from time to time in various gardening, craft and travel magazines. She is currently working on a series of books based upon the reclamation of their farmhouse and garden, including entries from her garden-cookbook journal.

Visit her website: http://web.me.com/annsomersetmiles; or her blogs: ‘wild somersetchild’ (http://annsomersetmiles.blogspot.com) or ‘journaling the journal’ (http://annmiles.blogspot.com).