Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life

Awarded Second Place--Nonfiction Books for Adults--Humor by the Woman's Press Club of Indiana, 2019 Communications Contest

"Professionally dirty clothes," "The MulchMobile," "The Gardener's Handshake," "Thanksgiving Conversation Starters for Gardeners," and "Going Steady with a Grower" are just a few of the delightful subjects covered in Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life.

Read it to discover if you have an eccentric gardener in your neighborhood or to see if, gasp, you are the eccentric gardener in your neighborhood.

The sequel to the popular essay book, Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, which taught us about gardening math, distance, time, and other important fundamentals, Homegrown and Handpicked is a journey through the seasons, with just as many laugh-out-loud, hey-that's-me stories as the first book.

Read to remember why you love gardening, and keep returning to your garden again and again, despite the bugs, weeds, and marauding garden fairies running off with your tools.

"A wonderful follow up to Carol Michel's first book of gardening humor Filled with vignettes, gardening tips, letters, advice, and more; this little collection is pure fun. Just as with here first collection, this book inspires the reader to get out there and start gardening, right this second It's cute and inspiring; and reading it at this time of year (spring) makes me want to do even more in my yard. I can't wait to get my hand on the third book in this trilogy, if anything like the first two it's going to be amazing: )" - Erin Cataldi, Librarian

Author: Carol J. Michel
Publisher: Gardenangelist Books
Published: 03/12/2018
Pages: 156
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.33d
ISBN: 9780998697956

About the Author
Michel, Carol J.: - Carol Michel is a lifelong gardener and resident of Indiana with a bachelor's degree in horticulture production and an associate degree in computer technology, both from Purdue University. She spent over three decades working in healthcare IT while making a life for herself in her garden. Now Carol calls herself a gardenangelist and spends most of her time in her garden, sharing all things gardening with anyone who will listen. She is an avid collector of old gardening books and claims to have the largest hoe collection in the world. Carol writes about her old books, hoes, and many other gardening-related topics for Indiana Gardening magazine and her award-winning garden blog, www.maydreamsgardens.com. She is also the author of Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life (Gardenangelist Books, 2017)