But when we moved to a 3 acre place in the midst of a bunch of fields and swamps, we suddenly had lots of land. And no money. We were so broke that oftentimes we could only shop the second hand stores when they had sales. In an effort to alleviate the grocery bills, my mother (who had been an urban girl her entire life) decided to start gardening.
And typical of my mother, once she decided to do something, she did it with a fervor, scale, and energy that make most normal people jealous.
