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A community effort to improve residents access to fresh wholesome food. Join the group to grow and trade fresh produce in Oak Park.

Friday, May 9, 2008

Volunteers

And I'm not talking about an 80's Tom Hanks movie. My understanding is that volunteers are plants that grow in your garden or yard that you didn't intentionally plant. Well I got lots of volunteers from last years garden. They litter our backyard lawn. Sunflowers, snap peas, zucchinis and tomatoes have grown into the middle of what is now the backyard lawn but was a garden last year. I don't have it in me to mow them down. I am asking you today (in my best evangelical preacher voice) to come down here and save these volunteers. If you can save just one, save one. If you can save twenty then, God bless you, there will be a place in tomato heaven right next to the beafsteaks* and romas.

*What a great name for a tomato. It pushes my eating buttons more than any tomato has a right to. BEEFSTEAK!!!!!!!

Email me if you are interested. horkdorker@yahoo.com

Poorly taken photos of volunteers:

These are mostly sunflowers -














These are snap peas -














These zuchinnis were awesome last year. Organic seed! -

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