An Eden of Sorts: The Natural History of My Feral Garden

By John Hanson Mitchell

Book Overview

Twenty-five years ago Mitchell cut down a 1 1/2-acre stand of 75-year-old white pines and planted a garden in their place. AN EDEN OF SORTS is a history of the plants and animals that lived on the tract over the next decades, including two generations of half-wild children What started out as a plot with no more that five or six flowering plants and shrubs, over the years grew into more than a thousand species of plants and animals inhabiting the property. This is a paradoxical yet hopeful narrative of what can happen to a plot of land when it is properly managed.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1581571720
• ISBN13: 9781581571721
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Countryman Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.3"