East Tennessee Garden Stories

We want to grow the love of gardening story by story.Visit a gardener, and you'll take away something of value. It might be a different way of seeing things or maybe something to avoid. To write this book, we visited a lot of them. Here are just a few:Two friends who founded Native Plant Rescue SquadA minister who feed souls and an inner-city community through BattleField FarmsA poet whose garden inspires her creativityThe ups and downs of raised beds from a father of threeTeens who preserve the ways and crops of antebellum gardens at Kingsport's Exchange Place, including an obscure plant that tastes like oystersA scientist who ditched his green lawn for clover and a sea of friendly beesA woodland gardening evangelist who watches each year for a flush of trilliums behind her house-and helps others to do the sameSharing garden stories is the essence of this book. More than that, we're sharing people stories--the kind we hope can help build community, neighborhood by neighborhood, county by county, and region by region. So whether you're a master gardener or a beginner with no idea where to start, we think you'll be inspired. Welcome to East Tennessee Garden Stories.