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  • "Dust, fog, wind and sun/Where there's water, a kitchen-garden," he wrote in Aragón, a 1974 poem-song that has become an unofficial anthem for the region.

    José Antonio Labordeta obituary Michael Eaude 2010

  • A new crop of kitchen-garden cookbooks offers tips for field-to-table eating.

    Green-Thumb Gourmet 2011

  • A new crop of kitchen-garden cookbooks offers tips for field-to-table eating.

    Green-Thumb Gourmet 2011

  • Suppose a monopolist who is my mortal enemy endeavours to ruin me by preventing me from selling eggs to my neighbors, I can tell him I shall live on my own turnips in my own kitchen-garden.

    G.K. Speaks - A Misunderstanding About Method 2007

  • We went out of the kitchen-garden ... but there involuntarily I stopped short.

    A Desperate Character 2006

  • He has cultivated his fields so as to bear rich crops of every kind, and he has made an excellent kitchen-garden, with a hot-house.

    Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

  • A lame old man came out of a shed in the corner of a kitchen-garden and shouted after him; but Gerasim only nodded, and began rowing so vigorously, though against stream, that in an instant he had darted two hundred yards away.

    Mumu 2006

  • I found my Werter – Guskov in the middle of a tiny kitchen-garden, a few steps from the lodge, near the old framework of a never-finished hut, overgrown with nettles.

    A Desperate Character 2006

  • The plateau thus formed one immense kitchen-garden, well laid out and carefully tended, so that the arms of the settlers were never in want of work.

    The Mysterious Island 2005

  • It was well worth while, besides, to turn Prospect Heights into a kitchen-garden, defended by its deep belt of creeks, and to remove them to the meadows, which had no need of protection against the depredations of quadrumana and quadrapeds.

    The Mysterious Island 2005

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