Gardening for a Lifetime: How to Garden Wiser as You Grow Older
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- ISBN13: 9781604690651
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Product Description
Sooner or later, every older gardener faces a similar challenge. At some point, we all find ourselves asking “If I can’t get out there and dig, plant, and prune as I used to, what am I going to do?”
The garden has been an everyday part of Sydney Eddison’s life for over forty years. It has witnessed the changing of seasons, her greatest joys, and her deepest sorrows. The garden and the gardener have aged and changed together. Farming for a Lifetime is a touching memoir about having to scale back after widowhood and painful joints made it impossible to keep up with a large country garden.
Intermixing personal experience with practical farming tips, Eddison has written an encouraging roadmap for long-suffering and embracing a new and simpler way of farming. Elegant black and white illustrations evoke Eddison’s everyday joy, sorrow, and contentment in the garden. Gentle, personable, and practical, Farming for a Lifetime helps transform farming from a list of daunting chores into the rewarding, joy-filled activity it was meant to be.
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Enjoyable read about downsizing a long-customary garden.I But I could not tell too much as I do not have acres and acres to garden. Still recommend especially for older gardens.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
Valerie Easton’s The NEW Low-Maintenance Garden – How to Have a Gorgeous, Productive Garden and the Time to Delight in It. The Easton book is an simple five stars, this Farming for a Lifetime pales by comparison. I really did not find that much point, helpful information in it, where I did in Easton’s book perfect with many garden photographs, plant recommendations, etc. A much more perfect book on the topic than this one.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Though I haven’t yet finished the book (too busy farming!), I am enjoying it. What I find missing is a diagram of her garden! There are copious sketches of plants, but none of the garden areas that she constantly refers to. It would have made it much simpler to know what she has done, if the illustrator had added perhaps before and after sketches of the basic garden layout.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
I’ve read all of Sydney’s books and recommend them highly to anyone who likes to garden and appreciates what a hands-on practiced with a wonderfully engaging writing style is pleased to share. Sydney’s books are about farming and life, and this book deals with some of the realities we aging gardeners face. I was lucky enough to visit her garden a decade ago and remember the perfection of her incredible perennial bed and the charm of her primrose path. When I blanched at the inadequacy of my farming efforts in comparison to her paradise, she smiled, and remarked that “this is not a garden, this is my life’s work.” As Sydney has aged, her garden and her perspective have evolved. But what hasn’t changed is her wonderfully warm and very practical account of her life in her garden.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I read this delightful book in one sitting. Ms. Ellison worries about how both her forty-year ancient garden and herself will survive ancient age. She doesn’t want to give it up entirely, so she looks for friends, experts, and resources to choose the best ways to keep the garden and do less work. It is perfect approach for gardeners like me, approaching 70, to find a way to keep farming “forever.”
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5