A gorgeous coffee table book full of valuable tips and dozens of moving stories of life on the Prairies. Lush photographs accompany great stories and information about more than 30 vegetables. Recommendations for many of the newest and best varieties are included.
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Lois Hole's renown as a gardener, author and businesswoman, as well as her remarkable years of community service, has brought her international acclaim. Lois was named Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta in February 2000. A member of the Order of Canada, she also has served as Chancellor of the University of Alberta. Lois'fame has done little to change her down-to-earth,folksy manner- a quality that has endeared her to people across the country.Lois and her husband built up a vegetable and market garden business in St. Albert, Alberta, through the 1950s and 1960s. In 1979, the operation was incorporated as Hole's Greenhouses and Gardens Ltd. The business went on to become one of the biggest retail greenhouse operations in western Canada. Despite the challenges of running a business, raising a family and serving on the boards of local school districts and a host of other community organizations, Lois has found the time and energy to write more than a dozen gardening books. All have gone on to become Canadian best-sellers. She also has been a regular contributor to the Globe and Mail, the Edmonton Journal and the Old Farmer's Almanac Gardening Companion.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A truly great lady and gardener par excellence,
By Christine the Librarian (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: I'll Never Marry a Farmer: Lois Hole on Life, Learning & Vegetable Gardening (Hardcover)
Lois Hole, the former Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Alberta, died in January of 2005 of cancer. A true duchess has been lost. This book is a homey collection of vignettes about family, people and gardening--her favourite things. She regales us with the funny and challenging things that happened in her long marriage and farming/market gardening career in partnership with her husband Ted, and tells about how they eventually "grew" one of the best greenhouse businesses in Canada. Some of her stories are about her favourite people, including meeting her eventual daughter-in-law, Valerie, and about her friend and employee, a wise Metis woman who taught her much about gardening, herbs and life. Lois wrote this book with a twinkle in her eye, and she even put in a plug about our venerable Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, which she claims was a running background to many long hours of farm work. Along with a lifetime of distilled wisdom, we get the bonus of her gardening tips, including recommendations of which vegetable varieties are her favourites and her tips on how to grow them successfully and even sometimes how to serve them. If you are a gardener and like to read about beautiful souls, this is your book.
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