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Henry Homeyer: The basics of a garden library Two of my favorite books by Sydney Eddison. On left, “The Gardeners Palette” and on the right, “Self-Taught Gardener.” Two fine books on perennial flowers. On the left, “The Well-Tended Perennial Garden (Planting & Pruning Techniques)” by Tracy DiSabato-Aust; on the right, “Herbaceous Perennial Plants, Fourth Edition) by Allan M. Armitage. I will never have too many gardening books. HENRY HOMEYER photos / For the Monitor Michael Dirr...

7-year-old American girl helps to fund her own brain surgery 4 Mar, 2021 06:51 AM 4 minutes to read Other By: Jay Reeves Liza Scott, 7, started a lemonade stand at her moms bakery last summer so she could buy some frills like toys and sequined high-heeled shoes. The bouncy little girl is still in business months later, yet the money is going toward something entirely different: surgery on her brain. Last month, doctors determined a series of seizures that Liza began suffering were caused by cer...

Always eager to help out and with an eye toward entrepreneurship after a childhood spent around a small business, the little girl volunteered to help raise money for her upcoming operation.

Liza Scott, a patient at Boston Children's Hospital, is running a lemonade stand to help fund her own upcoming operation. While her story has warmed plenty of hearts, is yet another sign that the US health system is broken beyond repair and driving families into bankruptcy, critics say.

“One week in the hospital and the ambulance rides is more than my monthly salary, and that’s without the surgery and travel expenses,” the girl's mother said. “I can’t fund that by myself.”

Liza was still in the hospital after suffering two major seizures when she came up with the idea to help out with the stand, said her mom.

Liza was still in the hospital after suffering two major seizures when she came up with the idea to help out with the stand, said her mom.

In  The Business of Botanicals, author Ann Armbrecht follows the medicinal herb’s journey from seed to shelf, revealing the inner workings of a complicated industry, and raises questions about the ethical and ecological issues of mass production of medicines derived from these healing plants, many of which are imperiled in the wild. From tulsi to turmeric, echinacea to elderberry, medicinal herbs are big business—but do they deliver on their healing promise—to those who consume them, tho...

Dont miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   I know that many people, especially gardeners under the age of 40, use the internet to find the answers to their questions. That is fine, but the internet is full of “fake news” and spurious assertions. I do use the web, but if I want to learn about something in-depth, I reach for a book. People who write books generally write about things they know. Garden books are written by gardeners. Some years ago I taught a class in sustainab...

Gardening: Required reading for your garden library By Henry Homeyer I know that many people — especially gardeners under the age of 40 — use the internet to find the answers to their questions. That is fine, but the internet is full of “fake news” and spurious assertions. I do use the web, but if I want to learn about something in-depth, I reach for a book. People who write books generally write about things they know. Gardening books are written by gardeners. Some years ago I taught a...