Born in 1915, Tasha Tudor is a famous American writer and illustrator. When Tasha was 9 years old, her parents divorced, she left Boston to live in Redding, a small town southwest of Connecticut. Contrary to the bustling city, Tasha really likes the rustic life, close to nature in the countryside.
At the age of 15, Tasha came to live on the farm with her mother, day by day began painting and teaching painting to children, in her spare time Tasha also helped her mother raise poultry such as chickens, geese and milked cows. As a teenager, she attended the Boston School of Arts and Crafts but soon dropped out.
At the age of 23, Tasha got married and bought a farm with her husband to take care of the garden, milk the cows to make butter and cheese to sell. Her mother’s life is no different from a real farmer, besides she still maintains writing and painting activities. However, this marriage also did not last.
56 years old, after 13 years of divorce, Tasha wants to live her own life, rustic, close to nature. With the help of her son, she returned to the wilderness of Vermont, in the eastern North of North America, to work as a gardener. Here she built a farm modeled on the 19th century. And her house is surrounded by a garden full of flowers and fruit trees all year round.
Although every day she just hangs around on her farm, but Tasha is very happy. Tasha herself watered, pruned, planted flowers, harvested flax, weaved yarn, knitted clothes, she even raised goats for milk and grew wheat to make bread. Sometimes, Tasha also organizes tea parties and dances, invites friends to visit her house.
It was in this house that she found the overwhelming inspiration for her main work. Nature is an endless source of inspiration for her works. Years of living in the countryside, without running water, without electricity, Tasha made candles to light herself, collected firewood to burn, made soap to wash clothes… Although Tasha’s name was then resounded in many countries around the world. world but she was completely satisfied with a self-sufficient life.
In 2008, Tasha died at the age of 93. Her garden house was later valued at $ 2 million and is still regularly visited by people to find peace in life. Tasha is remembered as a model of a woman who is free, free, liberal with nature and does not seek glamour.
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