Gardening the Amana Way

Gardening in Iowa's Amana Colonies is the culmination of techniques that stretch back several centuries to central Europe, when adherents to a new faith called the Community of True Inspiration formed their own self-reliant communities. As a child of parents who were part of the communal life of the Amana Society, Larry Rettig pays homage to the Amana gardening tradition and extends it into the twenty-first century.

About the author

Lawrence L. Rettig was born in 1941 in Middle Amana to parents who were born and raised in Iowa's Community of True Inspiration. Most recently the special assistant to the vice president for research at the University of Iowa, he lives in South Amana in his wife's family home, the last house built during the old order. The author of "Amana Today: A History of the Amana Colonies from 1932 to the Present," he writes regularly for the websites Dave's Garden, All Things Plants, and Cubits.

Product details

• Authors: Lawrence L Rettig, Lawrence L. Rettig
• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2013
• EAN: 9781609381905
• ISBN: 978-1-60938-190-5
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: Bur Oak Books; Bur Oak Books; Bur Oak Book
• Subjects: Guides > Nature > Garden; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works