High-Yield Organic Gardening, Film on Farming and Concertina Makers

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Profiles of MOTHER EARTH NEWS-type folks, including a homesteader who succeeds in high-yield organic gardening in a small garden plot.

In celebration of little-known MOTHER EARTH NEWS-type folks from all over, including high-yield organic gardening, a film on farming and concertina makers.

Nature Student: Eva Atteberry

If you’ve never seen a 16-pound rabbit, a blue (yes, blue!) bunny, a 15-foot-tall sunflower, or a kissing goose . . . you obviously haven’t visited Eva G. Atteberry’s back yard in Salem, Illinois. Eva just seems to have a knack for growing things, and the 75-year-old “youngster” always has time to demonstrate the abundance that can be produced on only a small plot of land.

Ms. Atteberry is justifiably proud of her high-yield organic gardening methods, the large “organic” garden she raises each year . . . and which she keeps wild rabbits from eating by sprinkling “beef liver water” around the vegetables. Obviously, Eva believes that the natural way is best when it comes to plants.

Livestock, too, for that matter. Ms. Atteberry, for instance, doesn’t set much store by the additive-laden chicken feeds that agribiz poultry producers currently stuff down their birds. “The chemicals make the eggs and the chickens fill up with water,” she says . . . then adds with a shrug, “I guess that’s what people want nowadays.”

  • Published on Jan 1, 1978
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