{"product_id":"people-with-dirty-hands-the-passion-for-gardening-9780028609904","title":"People with Dirty Hands: The Passion for Gardening","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Robin Chotzinoff\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Wiley\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Wiley\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Inside Flap\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeople with Dirty Hands Why do some people have their hands in dirt? What causes someone to become obsessed with the process of growing something, whether it be a tangle of flowers, chiles hot enough to make your eyes water, or a rambling rose plucked from a tumbledown house? Author Robin Chotzinoff took a road trip (several, actually) across America to find the answers. People with Dirty Hands is what she found. It rings with the voices of people singularly possessed: Margaret Sharpe and Pam Puryear, founders of the Texas Rose Rustlers; Doug Beck, president of California Garden Ladies, who harvests hibernating ladybugs from their leafy beds for commercial sale; and Bill Palmer, whose garden is home to 450 tomato plants, simply because \"You really can't buy a tomato.\" In vivid style, Chotzinoff captures the all-encompassing fervor--and hope--that can drive a person to create a vegetable garden from a concrete, hypodermic-strewn landscape or to plant seed while snow still threatens. It is the immutable promise of life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45116134490263,"sku":"9780028609904","price":2682.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780028609904.webp?v=1767271421","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/people-with-dirty-hands-the-passion-for-gardening-9780028609904","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}