The Valley of the Moon Book 3 Chapter 3 Part 1

In which Saxon and Billy travel through the farming country, encountering suspicion and learning the trade’s rudiments from an old, struggling farmer before visiting the thriving, intensively cultivated plot of a widow whose clever blending of flowers and vegetables draws both customers and lessons. There, amid careful instruction and earnest debate, they begin to glimpse the possibilities—and puzzles—of country life and agriculture as a means to happiness and self-sufficiency.