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Peace in the garden.(Frontlines)(Brief article)
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OnEarth
- Article date:
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January 1, 2008
- Author:
- Boskovich, Angela
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LAST FALL IN THE GERMAN city of Kassel, a group of about 15 women harvested a bumper crop of pumpkins, squash, and wine grapes from a small community garden. Nothing unusual there, perhaps--except that the women were from Morocco, Afghanistan, Somalia, and the former Yugoslavia.
The "intercultural garden" in Kassel is one of about 100 in Germany, but the only one run entirely by women. (And after the gardeners had long discussions about the hazards of pesticides, its produce will be totally organic.) The gardens began in 1995, after a group of Bosnian women in Gottingen, waiting out the ...