by Margaret Bruning

I live in a condo and like to walk through my neighborhood looking for edible treasures as the alleys in Phoenix are loaded with figs and citrus. As a way to meet my neighbors I always ask their permission to pick. I have found that they love to share their abundance and have someone else help “harvest” and enjoy their fruit. This is also how I stumbled into my own garden.

Two years after buying a condo and living city-style in the heart of one of the biggest metropolitan areas in the country, I was hungry for growing my own groceries. Daily I pondered my options so I began scoping out back yards and abandoned patches of dirt in all corners of my neighborhood. I spread the word to everyone with a yard, that I was looking for a patch of dirt where I could grow a small garden. I even considered guerrilla style planting in the drip-irrigated landscape planter at the adjacent condos.

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