We don’t have cable or satellite television or a flat-screened TV. There are some modern pleasures to which I haven’t succumbed. Yet, here I am, blogging mommy a Twittering, Facebooking, Linkedin technology embracing 21st century inhabitant. I would love to rely solely on my hardy pioneer stock and bypass technology (save for the ease with which I could obtain the basic necessities of life…and probably indoor plumbing…and central heating). I would love to bake my own bread, raise my own laying hens, milk my own nanny goats and make yogurt and cheese. I sometimes fantasize about living in a hand-hewn cozy cottage with a wood-fired cooking stove apart from the noise and congestion of city life. Sometimes I think I was born in the wrong century. Not only a lovely book to showcase on your coffee table, but full of beautiful images to admire. Clearly, her concoction works, as the photography shows. Tasha shares some of her secrets to keeping such beautiful gardens, including her concoction of manure tea, which she uses to feed her plants. Besides, a woman of her advanced years doesn't need to be snow shoveling anyways. One of my favorites was that Tasha doesn't shovel her walkways during the winter, and instead prefers to put on her snowshoes and trudge on through with her corgi dogs! She finds it to be a waste of time and energy. Brown, and Tasha's personal anecdotes, written and told by Tovah Martin. This book was nothing but inspiring, full of beautiful photography of her lush gardens, photographed by Richard W. I love Tasha's way of thinking, and her way of life in general. Not a moment, not an action, not a leaf is ever wasted.' And that, in a nutshell is Tasha's philosophy of life. 'Tasha never wastes a leaf: The spoils are fed to the hens.

Tasha Tudor's Garden by Tovah Martin