Albert L. Swope

In the hope of add knowledge, guiding and entertaining readers, whether they be contemporaries or our posterity, I have returned to my long-neglected love of written word. The art of writing, being part art and part a study in communications, has proven to be our best method of touching others in a way that may influence the reader’s future and increase the reader’s human potential.

Like so many of us, the early years of my life were lived in rural America where gardening was a normal part of life. Blessed with the opportunity to travel the world in the many years since leaving the farm, I have lived, worked, and gardened many foreign locations as Panama and Japan; and United States locations including Alaska, Kansas, Minnesota, Oregon, Virginia, and Texas.

So, I have tried to apply my may decades of life experience into these books and hope you find them informative and helpful.