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Gardening for Fun and … Profit?

How taming a too-steep-to-mow hillside became a new hobby

By Diana L. Walters | May 24, 2023

I’d never been an outdoors kind of gal, but as my 74th birthday approached, I decided to tame our unruly back acre.

All Else Failed: The Unlikely Volunteers at the Heart of the Migrant Aid Crisis

By Dana Sachs
Bellevue Literary Press
304 pages
$19.99

“In 2015, increasing numbers of refugees and migrants, most of them fleeing war-torn homelands, arrived by boat on the shores of Greece, setting off the greatest human displacement in Europe since WWII… All Else Failed is Dana Sachs’s compelling eyewitness account of the successes—and failures—of the volunteer relief network that emerged to meet the enormous need. Closely following the odysseys of seven individual men and women, and their families, it tells a story of despair and resilience, revealing the humanity within an immense humanitarian disaster.”

~ the publisher