Abstract
I have a community garden plot with four raised beds that I tend with a reasonable degree of care. Despite record heat this past July (2012), my garden exploded, and there is a life-and-death battle going on in the beds between pumpkin, tomato, and cucumber. My money is on pumpkin; its fleshy leaves first shade, then starve the other plants for light.
Highlights
I have a community garden plot with four raised beds that I tend with a reasonable degree of care
In The Neighborhood Project, Wilson, a distinguished professor of biology and anthropology, describes his efforts to establish an initiative to raise the fortunes of his city in the southern tier of New York State, applying the lessons of evolutionary biology to ‘‘make the world a better place,’’ starting with Binghamton
My background is in anthropology and journalism, but I have an interested amateur’s appreciation of biology and natural history and love a good metaphor
Summary
I have a community garden plot with four raised beds that I tend with a reasonable degree of care. Readers of the Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA) may recall that the metaphor of natural selection and adaption to new and changing conditions featured prominently in the seminal Janet Doe Lecture by Robert Braude, AHIP, FMLA, presented at MLA ’96 and published in the JMLA as, ‘‘On the Origin of a Species: Evolution of Health Sciences Librarianship’’ [1].
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