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People's gardens
From: Pacific Sun
Date: 20070511
Author:Henry, Tanya
Marin's not-so-secret community gardens
"Might I have a bit of earth...to plant seeds in-to make things grow-to see them come alive?" Those words, so timidly uttered by orphaned Mary Lennox to her distant and imposing guardian on the English moors of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The secret Garden, have stuck with me for more than 20 years. Though I have never had a garden of my own, I have always had that same desire to "plant seeds and watch them grow."
As a mother, the urge to teach my child where his food comes from is greater than ever. So, when I received a call from Kathy Neylon, the ...
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