Gardening: tending to vegetables, tending to communities

by Kevin Boehnke

Since May 2010, I have been an avid (if amateur) gardener. After buying our house in 2009, one of the first plans my wife and I made  was to tear up portions of our lawn in order to plant a large vegetable garden. Part of our  rationale behind this decision was environmental, but we also thought that it was important to figure …