Ginnine Josete

There's a big white tent on my front lawn. I'm not even joking. It's sitting there just waiting for people to stop and peek inside. This is what we do for fun in the fall...we put up a big white tent on our front lawn. People stop and go inside. They come out with their bounty, after paying in an honesty box, and they drive away. No one has ever ripped us off. Someone once stole a basket after filling it with vegetables but I figure they must have been really hungry.

Gardening is an occupation filled with peace, hope and joy. I have always loved plants. I remember being a teenager and finding escape in an overgrown field where I could fall back into the grasses that were taller than I was and take in a world so full of peace and life it was unrecognizable from anything I was experiencing in the human world. I remember blowing the seeds from dandelions and watching in wonder as they floated to new destinations to set down roots in all t