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

Joan Dye Gussow's Upcoming Events

• Joan Gussow at Maple Grove
  
  Maple Grove, Poughkeepsie NY
  June 30, 2013, 3:00 pm
• Joan Gussow at Bioneers by the Bay Conference
  
  Bioneers by the Bay, New Bedford MA
  October 26, 2013, 12:00 pm