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| Date | 082016-05pm-16Fri, 05 Aug 2016 17:20:38 -0400 |
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| Message | I've recently discovered your book, and am thrilled to know there are others who feel as strongly as I do about food production! I grew up gardening, and taught myself food preservation skills in my mid twenties. Every year I can, freeze, dry and prepare hundreds of pounds of food that sustains my family the entire year. In addition,I make all our household cleaners, and hygiene products. This year,I get the joy of making baby food for my son, and am so excited to teach him about the importance of living off the land as we add chickens, goats, bees, hogs and mushrooms to our 3 acre homestead. Your writings are wonderfully relatable and validate all the hot and tedious hours spent working with food. Once in a while, in moments of difficulty,I wonder if it's all worth it, and if I should work in an office and buy my food like everyone else I know, but your words remind me that there is nothing more precious than providing my family with food, and spending the days with my son in the garden and kitchen. Thank you, and happy growing! |
| Date | 052016-16pm-16Mon, 16 May 2016 15:39:29 -0400 |
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| Message | Dear Joan, You gave several inspirational talks at NOFA-NJ many years ago, and I wonder if you would be willing and able to speak yet again and do a book signing at our annual fundraiser on Nov. 6, 2016 near Princeton, NJ.If so, please contact me by email or by phone at (609)466-0194. I look forward to hearing from you. Warm regards, Stephanie Harris President of NOFA-NJ |
| Date | 032016-17am-16Thu, 17 Mar 2016 09:15:04 -0400 |
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| Message | Hi Joan, i attended your recent talk at Cornell Cooperative Extension in Rockland County as a volunteer master gardener. You mentioned a great and unexpected result of growing sweet potatoes and how the garden soil was greatly benefited. Would you be able to write back and remind me of what you found? It was something about the microorganisms that attach to the sweet potato that aids the soil. Thank you for your help. And do you suggest planting one potato in each of my 7 raised beds if I'm needing to enrich my 'dead" soil. Thanks for any feedback. I so enjoyed your inspiring presentation. Best, Christina |
| Date | 012015-03pm-16Sun, 03 Jan 2016 21:27:46 -0500 |
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| Message | Goodness me, I'm only 45 and have been turning clay into loam for 30 years. Every image and turn of phrase in "This Organic Life" mirrors my thoughts and feelings. I was in CO on vacation and thumbed through your book. 30 minutes later my wife is saying "got to go" and I commented "this is a great book!" Lo and behold, Christmas came and so did your book. Thanks or taking the time to write out what might take me a few more decades to commit to print. Such is the nature of connecting to plants, it's universal. I'm a high school English teacher and always thought the writing of my students would be better if we were allowed to simply take a walk and observe the gentle pace of nature. Slow down the racing thoughts and brwose the aisles of forest, or scrub or grass. I'm sure your book on nutrition and school achievement will be just as rewarding for me. Students who dare to eat non-food around me get the lecture, and those choosing wisely get praised. Now I can add "what Joan would say" to my spiel.  |
| Date | 122015-30am-15Wed, 30 Dec 2015 00:50:26 -0500 |
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| Message | Hi Joan, I just finished Growing, Older. I am 60 and in the last 5 years have started an organic farm, supplying eggs and market crops to our local community. I'm so glad I read your book, as it gives inspiration for my future. I ache, wake up sore, am pulling muscles I never knew I had, but the life on our 45 acres of NW Montana with our 185 chickens, 25 sheep is special. Most importantly I never have to go to the gym. Hopefully this will keep me as young as you as I Grow, Older. Thank you for sharing your thoughts, passions and point of view! I, like you, am proud to grow most of what my wife Susan and I eat every day. How much more local can we all get is a thought that I have almost every day. Thanks for so well articulating that POV. Chad EarthStar Farm Whitefish, MT |
| Date | 112015-19pm-15Thu, 19 Nov 2015 20:02:17 -0500 |
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| Message | hello joan, I am a former student of your from back in the mid 1980's. your impact on my life has been large. I have recently enjoyed reconnecting with you by reading Growing, Older. I can hear your voice telling these stories, and I can imagine your garden. I had finished the read, and several days later then I received a TC newsletter and I knew that there might be something about you in this edition, and there was a story about the documentary about your work in which I get to lay eyes on that garden, which is even more glorious to behold with my eyes than it had been with my imaginings. thanks for all that you have given me/us. with warm regards, rochelle sirota |
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| Date | 062015-24pm-15Wed, 24 Jun 2015 14:38:08 -0400 |
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| Message | Joan , what a pleasure talking to you, thank you for giving me the opportunity to see this web site. The devastation of hurricanes is something we have to deal here every once in a while. It's like a mandala , after working laboriously for weeks , it's erased with a sweep of a broom; and start again. kisses and hugs. julio |
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| Date | 042015-06pm-15Mon, 06 Apr 2015 17:21:32 -0400 |
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| Message | Hello Joan, I had met you at the Garden Club of America's Annual Meeting several years ago in New Jersey. You were one of our keynote speakers. I am Anne Hall's daughter (wife of the sadly late, but wonderful Dr. Ross Hume Hall). I am on the Horticulture Committee for The Garden Club of Virginia. We host an educational joint Conservation and Horticulture Workshop in September and was interested to know how much you charge for speaking engagements. Our workshop is a 1day affair in Richmond, Virginia. Thank you, Meg French (757) 705-1065/[email protected] |
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