The Gardener on Montague Street
In the spring of 1987, Ruth Caldwell knelt in the cracked soil behind her rowhouse in Baltimore and planted twelve tomato seedlings. She was sixty-three,...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Ephesians 3:20.
In the spring of 1987, Ruth Caldwell knelt in the cracked soil behind her rowhouse in Baltimore and planted twelve tomato seedlings. She was sixty-three, recently widowed, and her prayer that morning had been modest: Lord, just give me something to do with my hands. The tomatoes came in heavy that August — far more than she could eat. She set a card table on the sidewalk with a hand-lettered sign: FREE.…
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