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Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 9:26 am

It was a warm day. Emry had exchanged his favored heavy fabrics for a lighter camp shirt. A pair of gloves in his pocket hinted at his destination. A couple weeks ago, he had met a student at the university who had invited him to her community garden and today he was going to take her up on the offer.

To be honest, he had wanted to visit sooner. The whole concept of a community garden was a pretty appealing one and it would be a nice change of pace to be nurturing plants instead of picking up trash. Work and school just kept him busy up until today.

He had his messenger bag with him, containing his sketchbook and pencils as well as a bottle of water. He'd have to refill that soon. He had been walking a while since the bus stop and the occasional sip had left him with less than half a bottle. Who knows why he was carrying his gloves in his pocket when he had a perfectly good messenger bag to carry them.

Luckily enough, he was already walking next to the fence which surrounded Evalia's garden. He spotted the woman herself over the fence and gave a polite wave as he passed through the gate.

He looked around at all of the plants growing there. It was strangely surprising how quickly plants could grow. Nature enthusiast or no, Emry had little experience with gardening.

Parue

Posted: Sun May 26, 2013 8:10 pm

Eva had just been glancing up, catching the sight of a white haired head bobbing over the fence line. She smiled as she returned the friendly wave. She stuck her little gardening shovel into the soil of the box garden filled with blooming tomato plants, and wiping her hands on her sun-dress unceremoniously. Its was quite obvious she had been playing in the gardens for a while. Her hair was tied back out of her face with a length of ribbon, making her look like her same ridiculously girly self, but she was liberally flecked with dirt. She had smudged on her knees and even one across her cheek, which she seemed to either not notice or care.

She opened the gate in the fence for him, practically beaming at seeing a familiar face from school. " Hey Emry, I'm so happy you finally decided to come by! Did it take you long to get here? " The parking section was on the complete other side of the garden so she had assumed that he had walked.

She only really knew the other DCU student in passing, and they had some over lapping interests, which had lead tot he invitation to the garden. She had assumed he didn't live around here, sense he had seemed completely unaware of the big community project. He seemed a bit distant, but truly interested in the environment and healthy community alternatives, so she had really hoped to maybe convince him to become a regular. Plus, it was always good to have friends who were also students at the same school.

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Verithe

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Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2013 7:18 pm

"Only a little longer than I expected, but I'm glad to be here," his enthusiasm was guarded, but evident. "I should probably refill my water bottle before I go."

He motioned toward the box Evalia was just working in. "What do you have growing over there?" Emry's knowledge of vegetable plants was depressingly lacking, but he could tell it wasn't lettuce or cabbage.

Parue

Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2013 10:06 pm

" We have a spicket, if you dont mind tap. Its definitely not as good as filtered, but its cold and clean " She said with a smile, sort of nodding her head over to were a big Camping park style picket rose up out of a gravel pit, several metal bowls chained to its post, probably meant for dogs.

She turned her head to look back into the box she was working in. " Oh! These are some heirloom tomatoes. When they finally bear fruit they will be a nice dark purple, and taste a little different to. I managed to salvage some seeds from a sandwich I had last year. " She said, laughing at herself, a tiny bit embarrassed. It had been a farmers market, and it had been so delicious that she just has to try and get some of the plants to grow. " Only three actually sprouted so here is to hoping that they will give a bunch of fruit this year! I should probably figure out what they are called but I just keep forgetting. "

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Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 9:50 pm

"Tap is fine," Emry mentally recorded the location of the spigot Evalia had indicated for later. Right now he wanted a better look at those tomato plants.

"Heirloom tomatoes? Really?"

He walked over to the box for a better look.

"I never would have thought to use seeds directly from my food. Do you just stick them in the ground and water them then?"

In the back of his mind, Emry knew there were more details to gardening than that, but his grasp on the subject was weak.

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