Living the dream of the endless vacation “Anyone who has ever dreamed of leaving the city and taking their lives back to nature (and who hasn't?) will find mu

"How one woman's dream of moving to Vermont--raising children, chickens, and sheep & running the old country store--pretty much led to one calamity after anothe

Originally published: Woodstock, Vermont: The Countryman Press, 2013.

Chronicle of the unmaking of a gardener with explorations into the ecology of backyard gardens.

It's mud season, but there's more than mud in the middle of the road: There are pigs, hens, sheep, and bulls in the way. That won't do. For a car to get through