Lots of Italians up here. Some of these backyards are intensely cultivated. Squash two feet long. Urban farmland.
@shawnmicallef Hope you write about it. It's curiously under-analyzed and under-narrated.
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@HeerJeet It'll get a mention if I have room in this column - but yeah, it's another of the suburb's great secrets.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet I wonder if@yougrowgirl has ever touched on this stuff (suburban neopeasant agriculture) -
@shawnmicallef@yougrowgirl Bettina Bradbury's Working Families has some interesting historical tidbits on this. Immigrants to late 19th 1/2
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@HeerJeet@shawnmicallef Yes, please.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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