2004-2005 SPECIAL EDITION
16
YOU’VE SPENT AN HOUR tending your tomato vines, but
now it’s time to go to that meeting about the garden.
They
are threatening to take the garden away, to bulldoze the lot
and erect an electric power substation where flowers...
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2004-2005 SPECIAL EDITION
16
YOU’VE SPENT AN HOUR tending your tomato vines, but
now it’s time to go to that meeting about the garden.
They
are threatening to take the garden away, to bulldoze the lot
and erect an electric power substation where flowers now
dance in the breeze and the neighbors gather to admire old
Bill’s pumpkins.
At the meeting, everyone is polite and proper until
.
.
.
until that dour-faced junior executive rises with her
What good is community greening?
DAVID MALAKOFF • CGR 1995
Powerpoint presentation and her charts and graphs, and
“proves” how your garden is more “valuable” to the community with a concrete slab and 10 tons of machinery
slapped on top of it.
“Look,” she says in her best this-is-between-you-andme voice, “What good is that little patch of weeds and
carrots anyway?”
Now, you’re angry.
You jump to your feet and start to
speak.
“What good is our garden?” You ask in disbelief.
“I’llPhoto • Gardener Elvin Collins, Denver, Colorado (Colorado Stat
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