When Peter and I traveled to Switzerland in early September, we arrived in Zurich the day before our tour began. In order to reset our internal clocks, we walked around the area near our hotel and happened to pass a lengthy fence that bordered a large downtown park of individual gardens. What a pleasant surprise this was for me, just having left our Harvest of Hope Community Garden back in Kingsport! Most of the gardens also contained small buildings where I would imagine they stored their tools, etc. Some of the buildings looked like one-room summer cottages, where the owners could spend the day enjoying the outdoors and their little garden plots. I only snapped photos through the fence on one side of the park. As we continued our walk, it was obvious that this area was rather large. Many people in the community live in large apartment buildings, so this was obviously their connection to the land and an opportunity to grow fresh produce for themselves.
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