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Who says community gardening has lost its edge?

This has been a crazy period. I’ve been busy gardening on the weekends and work has been insane with an upcoming fundraising “event.” God how I hate that word. Call it a party and be done with it.

Anyway, a couple weeks ago I spent a Saturday cycling around gardens in my neighborhood of Bushwick and Ocean Hill. At the Secret Garden, this totally wild, one-acre site hidden in the middle of two blocks of row houses on Linden Street near Broadway, the folks were doing a major clean-up. They had filled up a huge dumpster with discarded furniture, auto parts, building rubble—and there was a lot more to go. This fellow found a discarded gun. Not a toy gun. A real gun. And they said this was the second gun they had found.

The “event” happens on Wednesday. After that I can relax into summer. I’ve been making many new gardening friends, so expect many more blog posting and pix.

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