Want to get off the grid and provide healthy, safe food for your family? Please consider your own backyard keyhole garden farm, suggests the author. W. Leon Smith is an experienced keyhole gardener, having spent several years experimenting with crop varieties and helping others create their own backyard keyhole farms. He regularly gives presentations to Master Gardener functions where he explains his adventures into this worthwhile concept of the perfect gardening system. His interest in keyhole gardens led to the creation of his small company, www.keyholefarm.com, that manufactures...

The Viet Nam war has just ended, but the military now wants to embark on its third quest to acquisition even more farm and ranch land for special maneuvers in this traditionally agricultural region of Central Texas. Acquisition could mean the destruction of small cities, cemeteries, and the lives of its inhabitants who have toiled and cared for the land for generations. The landowners decide to form a coalition to fight the corporate/military land grab which they feel is unnecessary and they enlist the aid of a newcomer to their midst, a young black man who is trying to put into action...