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This Organic Life

Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader

by Joan Dye Gussow

Table of Contents

List of Recipes

Preface

1. How It All Began

2. A New Place

3. Garden and House

4. A Riverside Garden

5. Building It

6. Giving Things Up

7. Put It in the Cellar

8. Gooseberries and the FBI

9. Friends Next Door

10. Gaining Ground

11. Varmints

12. Eating My Yard

13. Lessons from the Tomato

14. Is It Worth It?

15. What a Sacrifice?

16. Heat, Rats, and Despair

17. California and the Rest of Us

Bibliography

Index

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