Orchard House: How A Neglected Garden Taught One Family To Grow (2015) - Plot & Excerpts
There was a solid stripe on the dry lawn where the berries were falling to the ground and staining the grass purple, unpicked and uneaten. “What if someone catches us?” I was nervous. The house was on the market; it was a weekend; we would, technically, be stealing. My mother was unmoved. She has always been bolder than me. “No one is going to catch us—and those berries are just going to waste.” If there is one thing my mother hates, it’s wasted food. Her childhood taught her there is always someone who is hungry. We grabbed six large plastic containers and a bag to carry them in and made our way to the garden. The house had been on the market for a year, uninhabited all that time. Large PRIVATE PROPERTY NO TRESPASSING signs hung on each of the tall wooden gates. The first we tried wouldn’t open. Through the slats of the fence, I glimpsed the heavy padlock keeping it shut. For a moment it seemed our expedition would fail. This would have been more comfortable for me—no risk of discovery, no getting in trouble, but also no berries.
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