Photo: from the website GrowFood.org

My husband and I used to buy all of our vegetables in the summer from a woman who had a huge garden in her backyard. She’d put a sign out on the highway when she was open for business and we would stop in and buy whatever she had picked that day. Last year she stopped selling her produce because the work was too much for one person. We miss her every time we go to the grocery store and face vegetables packed on styrofoam plates, wrap… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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