Woman Who Speaks Tree

by Linda Tatelbaum Youthful “back-to-the-landers” streamed into Maine in the 1970s, while American society roared ahead into the lifestyle they’d rejected. Decades later, their alternative vision—eat locally, conserve energy—has become chic. Tatelbaum tells the comic and idealistic story of building a solar homestead where she still lives and gardens with her husband, and records the ripening of a generation.