Home Grown Books

Home Grown Books sent me their new Adventuring Set to review. My boys were thrilled when the box set of seven small paperback books arrived in the mail, and we immediately read all of them several times. From a mom’s perspective, they are simple, beautiful books, and it’s obvious the writer, artist, and publisher put…

Making Economic Exchange a Loving Human Interaction

Here’s my review of Good Morning, Beautiful Business by Judy Wicks, which appears in the current issue of YES! Magazine. The Economy of Smallness: Making Economic Exchange a Loving Human Interaction Philadelphia restauranteur and local economies movement leader Judy Wicks on making good and doing good. by Abby Quillen A few years after Judy Wicks…

How Two Plant Geeks Grew a Permaculture Oasis in an Ordinary Backyard

Here’s my review of Paradise Lot by Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates, which appears in the current issue of YES! Magazine. How Two Plant Geeks Grew a Permaculture Oasis in an Ordinary Backyard by Abby Quillen In “Paradise Lot,” two residents of an inner city write about how they transformed less than an acre of…