Germinations: Gardeners Get Exercise

By Peter Coppola, Winchester Star: Home and Garden
Fri, 07/27/2018 - 11:47am

GERMINATIONS: Gardeners get exercise

“When our forefathers arrived here and started clearing fields, they didn’t think about getting exercise.”That was the opening sentence of the introduction to “Great American Nature Writing,” an anthology of stories on nature. The author credited the line to Stephan Leacock, a writer and humorist, at the turn of the last century.That was when Battle Creek, Michigan, was the mecca for personal health and healing.

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