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In the early 1900s, urban Americans created backyard gardens to grow food, flowers, and hope. Sedgwick Gardens in Baltimore was one of thousands of neighborhood plots where working families cultivated vegetables, saved money, and found peace amid crowded city streets.
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You stand between neat rows of leafy greens and climbing beans. The soil is dark and worked, the fence sturdy. Around you, neighbors tend their own small plots—each family claiming a piece of earth to feed themselves and their children.
Reflect
Do you grow anything now—or wish you could? What would it mean to you?