Ruth Stout

Ruth Stout (1884-1980) was everyone’s favorite gardener and lovable eccentric, and we’re delighted to have republished four of her books:

  • Gardening Without Work (in regular and large-print editions). Her most famous book, all about no-work, no-dig, no-chemicals deep-mulch gardening.
  • Company Coming, a book of anecdotes revolving around her many eccentric and famous visitors and her even more eccentric ways of dealing with them.
  • If You Would be Happy, a charming guide to contentedness.
  • It’s a Woman’s World, more of the above but with an emphasis on women’s issues and how to make them non-issues.

I could say more, but my pages for the individual books say it better.