Gardening Without Work

For the Aging, the Busy & the Indolent

by Ruth Stout. Illustrated by Nan Stone. Foreword by Robert Plamondon
Norton Creek Press, ISBN 0981928463. 226 pages.

Garden expert and lovable eccentric Ruth Stout once said: “At the age of 87 I grow vegetables for two people the year-round, doing all the work myself and freezing the surplus. I tend several flower beds, write a column every week, answer an awful lot of mail, do the housework and cooking-and never do any of these things after 11 o’clock in the morning!”

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