How a Five Million Dollar Bet Led to an Unexpected Marriage in Queens

community garden in Queens,” I said, pressing my palms into the earth.

“How so?” Taylor asked, looking down at his own soiled hands.

“It has more clay,” I said. “It holds the water longer. It takes more work to turn it over, but once you do, things actually stay rooted.”

He reached out and wiped a smudge of dry soil from my cheek with continue reading …