The sign read "Bohnen", and I couldn't resist stopping to pick up a bag of the freshly picked green beans. This simple stand, just a card table really, has been selling a small sampling of garden produce all summer long, strawberries, raspberries, and now green beans.
As I was paying for my Bohnen I noticed a perfect path behind the stand that led straight through the garden, and I couldn'thelp but ask to see this prodigious plot. It was narrow and deep and filled with beds of asparagus, strawberries, tomatoes, currants, squash, raspberries adn pumpkins. There were apples, grapes and quince. And those green beans.
I learned that the space had also at one time housed twenty rabbits, but over the years they became too much work--and ate as much as a cow. I can't imagine just how much work this perfect-looking garden requires. Clearly it is a labor of love.
--Tracy Schneider
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