Prompted by the wish of an agent who had read an article about The Home Gardening Project in The Smithsonian Magazine, Queen Jane nevertheless is one of those books that came out formed of itself, there was no other way to tell the story. It is conscious estimation of American impoverishment, an antidote, and the truest report resulting from building free raised-bed vegetable gardens in the bad part of town for 14 years. Overly, it tells of the need...