East Dallas Community Garden

2009 | Best Buncha Basil

For 21 years the garden on Fitzhugh has been a key element in the very soul of East Dallas--three-quarters of an acre of raised beds cultivated by people who came here in the 1980s as refugees from war and pogrom in Southeast Asia. Even now on any Saturday morning after 9 a.m. you can wander in through the front gate and feel suddenly suffused with the calm and dignity of a far place and time. You can also get the best deal in town on a great big bunch of basil--a fat brick of it... More »