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Growing up, he often gardened with his grandmother in the yard of her home in Baldwin Park.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2023

Gen. Kanamine’s father gardened and served food to the host family; his wife cooked and did housework.

From Washington Post • Mar. 6, 2023

As we gardened and invested in gardens for different social, educational and environmental reasons in rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods, we contributed to increasing land values in a process described as green gentrification.

From Salon • Sep. 9, 2022

There, Oberlander gardened in earnest — her mother was a horticulturist — and developed a deep affinity for the land.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 5, 2021

And driving along a back Connecticut road, tree-bordered and gardened, I knew he had made me feel better and surer.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck