Monday, March 5, 2012

The garden of eating is the apple of her eye.(Capital Region)

Byline: ERIKA GROFF Special to the Times Union

SCHODACK - Imagine walking through gardens. Vegetable gardens. Perennial beds. Herbs. Tomatoes here, lavender there. Horticulture enthusiasts will get a chance to view nine such gardens as part of the Rensselaer County Garden Tour Thursday afternoon. The tour, put together annually since 1998 by Cornell Cooperative Extension in Rensselaer County, will showcase nine houses and gardens in Schodack this year. Last year, the tour highlighted Troy's east side neighborhood near Brunswick.

"We do it for a couple different reasons," said David Chinery, senior resource educator at Cornell Cooperative Extension. "Partly, …

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