All the Dirt on Gardening

OK Butterfly Count Peter Laufer is an investigative journalist with several books to his credit, including “Healing the Wounds”, “Hunger in America”, and “A Loss for Words”.   He has broadcast programs on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Mexican immigration and Soviet-era Russian Jews. When Laufer spoke at a book promotion in Washington he joked that he wanted to take a break from serious journalism and write about something light – maybe flowers and butterflies. A Nicaraguan woman watching his talk on C-SPAN invited him to come to her butterfly reserve where she and her husband raise butterflies to sell to butterfly houses and collectors around the world. And his discoveries only begin there. His experiences researching and writing “ Mission Rejected” led to his publishing a natural history trilogy: “ The Dangerous World of Butterflie s”, “ Forbidden Creatures” and “ No Animals Were Harmed During the Writing of this Book” .   “The Dangerous World o...