This Old House

Hexagonal herb planter

fter a decade of harvests, the raised beds in the community garden of Plympton, MA, were in desperate need of some TLC—and Girl Scout Troop 70837 was ready to dig in. Fortunately, 8-year-old Brownie Audrey Hickey had an ace up her sleeve: her uncle Nathan (that’s carpenter Nathan Gilbert) and his friends at . While Nathan helped the girls rebuild the four large, rectangular raised beds, landscape contractor

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