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The Rockland Review
The Rutland (Vt.) Herald
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It began innocently enough. Now that Alexander and his formerly city-dwelling family had a little bit of
suburban property, why not plant some vegetables and put in a few fruit trees? After all, any costs
involved would be more than offset by the joys of slicing fresh peaches on his morning cereal or
drizzling virgin olive oil over juicy beefsteak tomatoes from his own plants, right? Not exactly.
Recounting all of the things that could, and did, go wrong, from abandoned tractors to marauding groundhogs,
and menacing handymen to ravaging beetles, Alexander wryly reveals how his well-intentioned experiment
in backyard agriculture ended up being a lot more frustrating, not to mention expensive, than he envisioned.
In this appealingly witty memoir of one man's battle with nature, Alexander weaves a cautionary tale for
those who have ever tasted a grocery-store tomato and vowed to grow a better one in their own backyard —
Carol Haggas
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