Louise Riotte is one of my heroines along with Ruth Stout. Riotte, I was surprised and pleased to find, was not only a sister Libran but a Kentuckian as well. The mage of geocentric astrological planting, or "raising by the moon" as we say in Appalachia, was born on September 25, 1909, in Hawesville (Hancock County), Kentucky.

Moon sign authority Louise Riotte, taking a little breather in a forest of okra growing in her Oklahoma garden.