Mary St. Pierre visits her plot in a community garden in San Geronimo at least once a week to tend to her vegetables, but sometimes she is drawn to her 16-by-16-foot parcel because it calms her down. “I worry about plants instead of worrying about life,” she said. But a medicinal herb plot, whic

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