His reconnoitre had led him, through a vegetable patch given up to weeds, into what had been a garden, its single remaining flower bed marked with seed packets that told what its several rows contained.

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The 49-year-old has tended to a vegetable patch since he was 13 and his home garden's crop currently includes beets, Tuscan kale and celery root.

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To illustrate his ideas he turned a patch of grass near a housing estate in South London into such a garden, inspired by the flower beds at Buckingham Palace, and incorporating beans, salads and many other foodstuffs.

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Outside, a frost had stayed all that day and, icing over now, still whitened the small garden, the patch of grass, the fields beyond.

NEWYORKER: Faith