Gardening

we have a terrific, big garden here that is run by a refugee assistance agency.
it is on a long strip of land along the chicago "river". (aka, the sewer, at one time. better now.)
it is a for profit garden, and they have a full time market stand.
naturally, they specialize in hard to find ethnic veggies. folks get seeds from home, and grow all kinds of crazy veggies.
the use the darnedest things for trellises. they strip old mattress and use the frames, they have 1" pvc arches, buckets, barrels, you name it.
crazy cool. (and hoping to help them out next year with growing some seedlings. cant wait to get my hands of some of these plants.)

we are very proud to be "urbs in horto", city in a garden. it is a passion here.