We gardeners are healthy, joyous, natural creatures. We are practical, patient, optimistic. We declare our optimism ever — Carol Deppe, The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times
We gardeners are healthy, joyous, natural creatures. We are practical, patient, optimistic. We declare our optimism ever — Carol Deppe, The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times
We gardeners are healthy, joyous, natural creatures. We are practical, patient, optimistic. We declare our optimism ever — Carol Deppe, The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times
We gardeners are healthy, joyous, natural creatures. We are practical, patient, optimistic. We declare our optimism ever — Carol Deppe, The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times
We gardeners are healthy, joyous, natural creatures. We are practical, patient, optimistic. We declare our optimism ever — Carol Deppe, The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times
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We gardeners are healthy, joyous, natural creatures. We are practical, patient, optimistic. We declare our optimism every year, every season, with every act of planting.

— Carol Deppe, The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times
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