Category: Digging Deeper
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2012: The Year of Entering the Garden with my Grandma Virginia
A statue of St Francis in Grandma Virginia’s backyard circa the early 1980s. I have no idea what happened to him, but he stood beside a little water feature that never worked during my lifetime. I imagine Grandma and Grandpa made it when they built their midcentury ranch house together, long before Grandpa Amato passed…
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To Love One’s Vegetables and Philosophy Too
My Sicilian relatives never lived on the East Coast. They immediately headed to Oregon where they’d heard the soil was good and cities were open for business. They were truck farmers vending fruits and vegetables during the first generation, a dream that would never have been possible in Sicily. My grandfather Salvatore (aka Sam), the…
Ann Loves Plants 