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We want to grow the love of gardening story by story.Visit a gardener, and you'll take away something of value. It might be a different way of seeing things or maybe something to avoid. To write this book, we visited a lot of them. Here are just a few: Two friends who founded Native Plant Rescue Squad A minister who feed souls and an inner-city community through BattleField Farms A poet whose garden inspires her creativity The ups and downs of raised beds from a father of three Teens who preserve the ways and crops of antebellum gardens at Kingsport's Exchange Place, including an obscure plant that tastes like oysters A scientist who ditched his green lawn for clover and a sea of friendly bees A woodland gardening evangelist who watches each year for a flush of trilliums behind her house-and helps others to do the same Sharing garden stories is the essence of this book. More than that, we're sharing people stories--the kind we hope can help build community, neighborhood by neighborhood, county by county, and region by region. So whether you're a master gardener or a beginner with no idea where to start, we think you'll be inspired. Welcome to East Tennessee Garden Stories.

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From the time he was a toddler, Brad Lifford has been taken in by stories: hearing them, reading them, writing them. When he was 7, he gave his parents his first book, a crayoned tale about GI Joes. He has been a reporter, editor and film critic for daily newspapers in East Tennessee and a freelance magazine writer, as well as film editor for Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine. He has also worked in communications in the materials industry, academia, and health care. Brad is a member of the Knoxville Writers Guild, the North American Guild of Beer Writers and the Public Relations Society of America. He lives in East Tennessee with his wife and three cats. He enjoys brewing, hiking, and gardening. Terry Shaw has been helping people tell their stories for more than 30 years. He's worked as a newspaper reporter and columnist, a copywriter and publicist, a freelance book editor, and a content manager for a Fortune 500 company. His experience editing a daily newspaper on the coast of Maine inspired his novel, ""The Way Life Should Be,"" published by Touchstone/Simon & Schuster. He serves on the board of the Tennessee Mountain Writers and is a past president of the Knoxville Writers' Guild. He lives with his wife and two standard poodles in the Holston River Valley and enjoys hiking, gardening, and cycling.

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