The Hopi Indians grow corn in the middle of the desert that produces up to 12 cobs per plant without irrigation, commercial fertilizers or pestisides. They do so by praying for the plant spirits and singing to their plants during the heat of midday to give them courage. The say their corn does so well because of a Navoti Sprit that was instilled in the corn by an ancient Medicine man. The book traces the authors efforts to rediscover how the the Medicine men were able to instill such a zest for life into their plants