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This watercolor captures a Brooklyn garden in the 1860s—a modest patch of earth behind a city home. For ordinary families, gardens meant fresh vegetables, herbs, and flowers that beautified their surroundings and supplemented the family diet.
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You lean close to the window and see it: tomatoes ripening in summer sun, climbing beans on a trellis, hollyhocks crowding the fence. The light falls soft and golden across the beds. In the city, this small plot of dirt was a luxury—proof that you could grow something yourself.
Reflect
What grows in your neighborhood now? What would you plant if you could?