Amish Garden: A Year In The Life Of An Amish Garden

179 Pages·2013·17.93 MB·English

by  Laura Lapp

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available on file.
Cover design by Cliff Snyder Cover photo credit Jeremy Hess Photographers/JH
Print ISBN: 978-1-56148-792-9
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-68099000-3
Printed in the United States of America Publisher’s Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lapp, Laura Anne.
An Amish garden : a year in the life of an Amish garden / by Laura Anne Lapp ; photography by Jeremy
Hess.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-1-56148-792-9
1. Gardening --American. 2. Seasons --United States. 3. Amish --Social life and customs. 4. Amish --Social
life and customs --Pictorial works. 5. Amish --Pennsylvania --Lancaster County --Social life and customs --
Pictorial works. I. Hess, Jeremy. II. Title.
SB451.3 .L37 2013
712/.6/0973 --dc23 2013932402
CONTENTS
About An Amish Garden
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
About the Author
About the Photographer
Acknowledgments
Thank you, my five “sister gardeners,” for making this project possible.
Without your gardens and input, this book would have been very slight.
Thank you, my three boys—Aiden (age five), Thomas (age three), and Micah
(age two)—for keeping my life interesting and being my big helpers.
Last, and most important, thank you, John, for your help, support, and
patience. You’ve helped me more than you know.
—Laura Anne Lapp
A Word from the Publisher
In order to respect the caution which members of the Amish church have about being
photographed, we have not included frontal, face-on photos of adults in this book. No
photo was included in this book without the author’s approval, in respect for her religious
convictions.
ABOUT AN AMISH GARDEN
This is my year-long diary of living with a garden. I didn’t write a how-to
manual. Instead, I’ve recorded the love, the uncertainty, the hard work of
growing our family’s vegetables, and also the immeasurable satisfaction of
preserving our food when the garden is in full swing.
I asked five other gardeners, friends and family members whose gardens and
gardening skills I admire, if I could feature their gardens, along with mine, in An
Amish Garden. We all garden differently, and I wanted to give a fuller picture of
life with a garden than just my own.
“Barbie Mom” is my dear mother-in-law who lives just across the field from us
and who has given me more gardening advice than anyone else. She is a true
gardener who loves everything about her garden.
Esther is a friend and practically my next door neighbor. She’s older than I am
and a very experienced gardener. Her gardens are the perfect ones—with
straight, straight rows and no weeds. I strive to be like Esther.