A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – September 25 – Marta McDowell on Laura Ingalls Wilder Landscapes
Summary: <div id="icc0ghw6" class="txtNew"> <p><span class="drop_cap">A</span>SK MARTA MCDOWELL what she’s harvesting in her garden this fall, and here’s the kind of answer you might elicit:</p> <p>“I’m off to pick the overflow crop of ground cherries that I planted, because of a letter that Ma Ingalls wrote to her daughter. Ground cherry preserves anyone?”</p> <p>Well, the Ma Ingalls in that reply is none other than the mother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the beloved “Little House” books.</p> <p>So why does <a class="external" href="http://www.martamcdowell.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marta McDowell</a>, a gardener and landscape designer in contemporary New Jersey, take her cues about what crops to grow from the vintage correspondence of others? Apparently, that’s a side effect of delving into their backstory deeply enough to write <a class="external" href="http://amzn.to/2xZlZjV" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Frontier Landscapes that Inspired the Little House Books,”</a> which McDowell has just published.</p> <p class="font_8"> </p> </div> <div id="icc0izmr" class="wp2" title=""> <div class="single-leaderboard-wrapper"></div> <p><a href="https://awaytogarden.com/landscape-history-lesson-little-house-books-marta-mcdowell/"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1064" src="https://i1.wp.com/robinhoodradioondemand.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/McDowell_Cover-230x300.jpg?resize=230%2C300&ssl=1" alt="" width="230" height="300"></a></p> </div> <div id="icc0jwp1" class="txtNew"></div>
