Sandra Knauf

"With her oldest daughter about to graduate high school, a brand "new" used stove replacing the breaking-down 1930s Eureka brand she's been using for 25 years, new (read, huge) gardening projects, and other life-altering adjustments, everything in Sandra's life seems to be moving too fast. She writes about the ensuing woes and hopes in two stove stories; one from 2002, a love letter to the Eurkeka stove, and the second piece, her 2010-oh-damn-everything's-different story about the new one. She also writes about how her city is finally getting into the community gardening scene, complains about her city's decision to nix a free trash service offer by PETA, and disses Girl Scout cookies. Her ever-popular comics are back, this time as "Flower Comix," and she explores growing (and the many uses of) garlic. She's joined in this nourishment-themed issue by Pat Cook Gulya, writing about participating in a food pantry give-away in Boulder, Colorado; Becky Elder, who pens a sweet ode to her life's gardens in "Gateway to Nature"; and new writer Rachael Kloster, who tells about gardening as a new mother in "Gardening by Moonlight." A special bonus is Dan Murphy's 12 page zine, The Juniper, Issue #12. Dan, who was nominated in 2009 for an UTNE Reader Independent Press Award, shares his philosophy on "Small Living," "Water," and "Bicycling in Edwardsville" (Illinois, where he attends grad school)."

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"Continues the green tales of Colorado gardener/humor writer Sandra Knauf. In "Blood & Roses, Sandra finds herself building a rustic arch and pruning roses in her backyard, all the while pondering the love relationship through the rose metaphor. In "The Audacity of Dirt" she helps put together a Barack Obama garden tour fundraiser in her historic (and politically divided) neighborhood. "Summer Lovers" is a scandalous tale of marital infidelity revealed. There is also an essay on the history of the Green Man (and Green Woman) and a description of her fiction project featuring those archetypes, along with film reviews of The Rose Tattoo and The War of the Roses."

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"Sandra loves to garden, and it's really become the focus of Greenwoman now. She's gotten a part-time job tending to other people's gardens, and a majority of this issue is her journal of afternoons spent weeding and planting. Sandra tends all types of gardens. She catches snakes and endures wasp stings, solely because gardening is her passion. Contributors this issue tell about a life ruled by apples, and tree planting. Sandra closes the issue with an overview of all of the herbs in her garden, and whew, there are alot of them! She lists and describes nearly 20 varieties of mint!"
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