Jack Canfield - Chicken Soup for the Gardeners Soul: Stories to Sow Seeds of Love, Hope and Laughter

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Chicken Soup for the Gardeners Soul...

From the time of Adam and Eve, we have all been required to be gardeners. Read and enjoy the fruits of the tree of knowledge and of life.

Bernie Siegel, M.D.
author, Love, Medicine and Miracles and Prescriptions for Living

Chicken Soup for the Gardeners Soul captures the spirit of the millions of people who garden. The inspirational messages easily explain why gardening is Americas favorite leisure activity. While the 245,000 members of the National Council of State Garden Clubs, Inc., will enjoy this wonderful addition to the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, this book is certainly a great read for anyone.

Deen Day Smith
president, National Council of State Garden Clubs, Inc.

On days when its raining and your back hurts and you cant be out in the garden doing battle with the weeds, heres just the book to curl up witha reminder of why you would never be without a garden, despite the backaches.

Martha Smith
author, Beds I Have Known: Confessions of a Passionate Amateur
Gardener and My Floral Roots: A Scottish Garden Odyssey

A superbly rewarding read. Each and every story reveals a discovery of the real meaning of gardening as a regenerative act of hope and love.

Tom Powell
editor and publisher, The Avant Gardener

A must-read! Every story will inspire and nurture your soul.

Donna Dawson
master gardener and owner, ICanGarden.com

As someone whose life work is sharing and promoting the joys of gardening with seeds, this book has been a way for me to reacquaint myself with how critical and deeply fundamental gardening is to everything that brings out the best in us. A treasure!

Renee Shepherd
owner, Renees Garden Seeds

Gardening is so centering for mind, body and spirit. How wonderful to finally have a book of stories where gardeners share this special connection with nature to move and inspire us all.

Tracy DiSabato-Aust
author, The Well-Tended Perennial Garden

A wonderful book that will warm the heart of any green or brown thumbers.

Roger Dawson
author, Secrets of Power Negotiating

In Chicken Soup for the Gardeners Soul you will reap an unlimited harvest of faith, possibility and love that will inspire you to plant anew by sharing the stories with everyone you know!

Brian D. Biro
motivational speaker and author, Beyond Success and The Joyful Spirit

Chicken Soup for the Gardeners Soul conveys what we gardeners either sense intuitively or know unequivocally... that our gardens grow us even more than we grow them.

Arlene Bernstein
author, Growing Season

My mother taught me that chicken soup was a great healer for the body. Now Ive discovered something that heals the soulthe right brew of stories in this very special book: 101 stories that feed our yearning for harmony with nature and nourish our hungry spirits.

Connie Goldman
coauthor, Tending the Earth, Mending the SpiritThe Healing
Gifts of Gardening

Sometimes you water and grow flowers; sometimes they water and grow you. This book will bless you in a mighty way. Read it and share it with people you love. Theyll be glad you did.

Willie Jolley
author, It Only Takes a Minute to Change
Your Life and A Setback Is a Setup for a Comeback

Just what this Northwest gardeners soul needs for those why-do-I-bother-gardening kind of rainy days!

Ketzel Levine
National Public Radio correspondent and
author, Plant This! Best Bets for Year-Round Gorgeous Gardens

A must-read! Fascinating, heartwarming stories about people and their gardens!

Ed Hume
host, Gardening in America

Stay healthy. Take chicken soup if the flu bug strikes. Read Chicken Soup for the Gardeners Soul for peace of mind.

Doc and Katy Abraham
syndicated columnists and authors, The Green Thumb

This spirited and heartfelt compilation will take its rightful place in every gardeners library.

Davis Dalbok
founder, Living Green Plantscapes, San Francisco

CHICKEN SOUP
FOR THE
GARDENERS
SOUL

Stories to Sow Seeds of Love,
Hope and Laughter

Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen,
Cynthia Brian, Cindy Buck, Marion Owen,
Pat Stone, Carol Sturgulewski

Backlist, LLC, a unit of

Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, LLC

Cos Cob, CT

www.chickensoup.com

Well, Ive tried everything else!

Reprinted by permission of Dan Rosandich.

Contents

Nicolle Woodward

Tom R. Kovach

Jonita Mullins

Carol Sturgulewski

Dan Barker

Beth Pollack

Lucy B. Richardson

James P. Glaser

Jean Little

Marion Bond West

Stephanie Welcher Buckley

Valerie Wilcox

Georgia A. Hubley

Peter Guttmacher

Erica Sanders

ViAnn Meyer

Donna Gundle-Krieg

Reverend Max Coots

Arlene West House

Cindy Buck

Marcia E. Brown

Doris Meyer

Linda OConnell

Jenny Gore Dwyer

Diane C. Daniels

Joanne Bryan

Bernice Bywater

Carol McAdoo Rehme

Martine Caselli

Janice Hasselius

Jill LaBoy

Emily King

Gary Carter

George M. Flynn

Meredith Hodges

Adam Khan

Jaynell Grayson

Erica Sanders

Anirban Gupta

Susan Antler

Pamela Waterman

Sheila Stroup

Laura Esserman, M.D.

Carol Sturgulewski

Jeff Lowenfels

Lon J. Rombough

Skye Trimble

Carol Sturgulewski

Nita Waxelman

Cynthia Brian

Stuart C. Vincent