Yarnell Community Garden Project

All summer long, we'd been buying fresh produce from the Community Garden Farmers Market. We learned that a guy named Frank Ryan came up with the idea three years ago after reading Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. It's entirely supported by volunteers and donations.

Every Friday, they pick whatever is ripe and "sell" it at the farmer's market for donations. You simply pick what you want and put whatever you want to or can afford to in the jar. Gerald and I finally decided to go down to the garden and check it out. We found it charming.

We ran across these guinea hens bedded down in the squash. Turns out they keep the grasshoppers in check.