He tends his vegetable garden, spends quality time with his wife and visits relatives.

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He argued more money needed to be spent now in order for the garden to pay its way in the future and said the quality of the garden justified "drawing a line under the present situation".

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We need good infrastructure to make it easy for people to map their surroundings and good community tools to help us garden the data and improve quality.

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It comes from a garden wholesaler, which provides the high quality soil, taken deep beneath the earth's surface -- 10 meters down, in fact.

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So rigorous is the standard of quality here that, as garden programs director Laura Viancour explains, the fruit you see on so many wreaths around the city is checked for freshness and replaced weekly.

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There are other Gallic touches - the loft extension has a chicken coop, so that contestants can have the highest quality eggs and poultry and a vegetable garden.

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