A New Way to Celebrate Earth Day

How taking care of your land might be enough today

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Nikko tucked the watermelon seedling into the dirt and announced, “We’ll call it the People’s Garden.” I thought of all the people who pass our front lawn every day — the young woman with the straight back leading her doberman pincher around the block on a short leash, the older biracial couple who joked that I probably…