{"id":990,"date":"2025-06-28T09:58:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T16:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=990"},"modified":"2025-06-28T10:12:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T17:12:36","slug":"ruth-stout","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/ruth-stout\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Stout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-442 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Ruth-Stout-sepia.jpg?resize=263%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Ruth-Stout-sepia.jpg?resize=263%2C300&amp;ssl=1 263w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Ruth-Stout-sepia.jpg?resize=768%2C877&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Ruth-Stout-sepia.jpg?resize=897%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 897w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Ruth-Stout-sepia.jpg?w=1016&amp;ssl=1 1016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 263px) 85vw, 263px\" \/>Ruth Stout (1884-1980) was everyone&#8217;s favorite gardener and lovable eccentric, and we&#8217;re delighted to have republished four of her books:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/gardening_without_work\/\">Gardening Without Work<\/a> (in regular and <big>large-print<\/big> editions). Her most famous book, all about no-work, no-dig, no-chemicals deep-mulch gardening.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/other-books\/company_coming_ruth_stout\/\">Company Coming<\/a>, a book of anecdotes revolving around her many eccentric and famous visitors and her even more eccentric ways of dealing with them.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/other-books\/if-you-would-be-happy\/\">If You Would be Happy<\/a>, a charming guide to contentedness.<\/li>\n<li><em>It&#8217;s a Woman&#8217;s World,<\/em> more of the above but with an emphasis on women&#8217;s issues and how to make them non-issues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I could say more, but my pages for the individual books say\u00a0it better.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/gardening_without_work\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-651 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/gardening_without_work_cover2501.jpg?resize=167%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"250\" data-wp-editing=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/other-books\/company_coming_ruth_stout\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-992\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Company-Coming-by-Ruth-Stoutt-098192848X.350px.jpg?resize=167%2C251&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Company-Coming-by-Ruth-Stoutt-098192848X.350px.jpg?w=350&amp;ssl=1 350w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Company-Coming-by-Ruth-Stoutt-098192848X.350px.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 167px) 85vw, 167px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/other-books\/if-you-would-be-happy\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-436\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Ruth_Stout_If_You_Would_Be_Happy_Cover_250px.jpg?resize=164%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"164\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/other-books\/if-you-would-be-happy\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-994\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/its-a-womans-world-cover-350.jpg?resize=167%2C251&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/its-a-womans-world-cover-350.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/its-a-womans-world-cover-350.jpg?w=350&amp;ssl=1 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 167px) 85vw, 167px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruth Stout (1884-1980) was everyone&#8217;s favorite gardener and lovable eccentric, and we&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/ruth-stout\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ruth Stout&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-ruth-stout"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P71zFO-fY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20,"url":"https:\/\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/other-books\/company_coming_ruth_stout\/","url_meta":{"origin":990,"position":0},"title":"Company Coming","author":"Robert Plamondon","date":"August 15, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Six Decades of Hospitality by Ruth Stout Norton Creek Press, 154 pages.\u00a0ISBN 098192848X. \"Guess who's coming to dinner?\" With Ruth Stout, you never knew! 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