People with Dirty Hands: The Passion for Gardening

ISBN-13: 9780028609904 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 206 str.

Robin Chotzinoff

Opis

Presents portraits of people who love to grow things, including the founders of the Texas Rose Rustlers, Bill Palmer and his garden of 450 tomato plants, and a harvester of ladybugs for commercial sale.

Spis treści

Introduction.

1. Rustling Roses.

2. Heat.

3. Winter: Bugs and Seeds.

4. City Dirt.

5. Estates.

6. Long Island Roots.

7. Tomatoes.

8. Natives.

9. Road Trip: Medicine.

10. Road Trip: Three Days in Oregon.

11. What People Keep.

Acknowledgments.

O autorze

Robin Chotzinoff is a staff writer for Denver′s Westword and a contributor to Garden Design magazine, and she has written for New Republic and Outside. She lives with her daughter and her boyfriend in a log cabin outside Denver, where she gardens at 7,000 feet.

Blurb

There was a wooden picnic table under the grape arbor, where Zelma sat all day when she wasn′t actively gardening. She shelled peas, wrote letters, and mended clothes there. The older she got, she said, the less she wanted to be inside. Following Zelma′s model, I will age ungracefully until I become an old woman in a small garden, doing whatever the hell I want. There was a time when this would have sounded unfulfilled to me, if not downright depressing, but now I look forward to it. Robin Chotzinoff From the Introduction