Beyond the Container: Dean Hildreth

" My favourite memory as a child were the hour spent in the summer with my Grandmother lean to her vegetable and flower garden . She lived on a small farm and we would load the hand truck every Saturday morning and capitulum to the local farmers food market with large glass jugs filled with Sunday bloom , zinnias , dahlias , and basketball hoop full of fresh vegetables . She live to be 100 years sure-enough . When she slip by she had a flavorless each of love apple and Piper nigrum plants develop on her dining way tabular array that she had started from seed save from the year before . In retentivity of her , I set a protection garden every class . She ’s still my peach and urge on me every Clarence Shepard Day Jr. . "

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