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don't forget your friends, your children and mates, your relatives and neighbors. Involve whomever feels good and generous with coffee grounds, vegetable peelings and egg shells again.
The sense of community has carried tiny city gardens in Denmark to full fruition. Great teaching tool for sociology and inter-personal relations.

Of course you may have to share the harvest, a tomato, a cucumber or a bucket of zucchinis at panic time when even the chickens turn up their beaks at the crazy produce. It is an exercise in patience and peacefulness, to know that you have prepared the one place in the sun for food and family, for now and near future. And by seed saving, it is a practice of sustainability.

By enrichment, an act of stewardship, one on one, man in synchronicity with his inherent nature. The lettuce is not the object as much as the act of growth, the full connectivity which ensures rest, and healing within. For creative people, it is a base, a palette to crystallize energies without force, or effort. For nutrition, there is no better food than that grown in the safety of your own place.No pesticide residues, no herbicides, and flowers embellish the mood and the mind.

Now walk to the store and buy seeds, borrow plant starts from someone, peruse catalogs and poke holes in the mulch mat, in whatever order or pattern you design, be creative, but at least plan for tall plants inside the beds and short ones on the edges, and make room for a foot path too. ..grow well!

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