Product Description: Isabelle Moser was born in 1940 and died in 1996. She had been fending off cancer since its first blow up when she was 26 years old. Coping with her own dicey health had been a major motivator for her interest in healing others. She will tell you more about it in this book...read more

Product Description: Back in the '70's, I made the momentous move from the East Coast to the West and quickly discovered that much of my garden knowledge needed an update. Seattle's climate was unlike anything I had experienced in Massachusetts or Ohio or Colorado, and many of my favorite vegetables simply didn't grow well...read more

Product Description: "[...]witnessing revelation, I gave the plant absolutely no water, though I did hoe out the weeds around it after I cut the seed stalks. I harvested the unexpected lesson at the end of September. The cabbage weighed in at 6 or 7 pounds and was sweet and tender...read more

Product Description: . . . Unfortunately everything that I wrote before high school was lost with time. But I did manage to save a fair collection of pieces from high school and college days. Aside from my poems book from high school, it wasn't till 2010 (and thanks to Facebook) that I actually started taking my poems off the scraps of paper I scribbled them on and put them where I can save them...read more

Product Description: What exactly is the tenuous connection between an individual and culture? When does a cultural tradition cease to offer security to its members and instead becomes so confining that one must protest or rebel to survive as an individual? These issues, which had often undercut the author's well-intentioned research plans, compelled her to pay attention to the subjective aspect of research as much as the objective ones...read more

Product Description: Here's a fully revised edition of this regional bestseller- considered to be the definitive food gardening manual for the Pacific Northwest. This is the bible of vegetable gardening for anyone turning the soil west of the Cascade Mountains-from Western British Columbia to Northern California...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Water-Wise Vegetables shows how to grow a lush, productive vegetable garden with minimal watering. Solomon includes information on irrigation, mulching, site and seed selection, and explanations of how plants use water and how to prepare soil for effieient water usage...read more