Acknowledgements

My thanks to Amy Glaser whose vision started this book,

Stephanie Pui-Mun Law for her beautiful artwork,

and Lynne Menturweck for her direction in pulling it all together;

Liz Parsons and Rosanne Graef for inviting me to join

our neighborhood apothecary garden project;

and my family Lyle Koehnlein and Jessica Weiser

who share a small oasis of a backyard garden with me.