#1450 In the Garden

Prompted by a listener request, we speak with President Jefferson about gardening and his love of plants. Thomas Jefferson once said, "No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, no culture comparable to that of the garden ... But though an old man, I am but a young gardener."

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Further Reading

  • Dust Bowl Diary by Ann Marie Low

  • My Antonia by Willa Cather

  • The Bones of Plenty by Lois Phillips Hudson

  • Giants in the Earth by O. E. Rølvaag



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