Hudson Valley Writers’ Center

Larry Weaner is an icon in the world of ecological landscape design, and now his revolutionary approach is available to all gardeners. Garden Revolution shows how an ecological approach to planting can lead to beautiful gardens that buck much of conventional gardening’s counter-productive, time-consuming practices.

It is the 200th anniversary of Thoreau’s birth this year, and 2017 was the 800th anniversary of the Charter of the Forest. Both speak to a shared appreciation and stewardship of nature. Many know the former but are ignorant of the latter, so Robinson combines the two and links them to the research of Elinor Ostrom, who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in economics. For adults.