MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — A garden grows amid the towering historic homes and urban sprawl that characterize the Old West End. Teeming with fruits, vegetables and flowers, it is a green thicket that spills over its chain-link, backyard enclosure onto cracked sidewalk. To Keeley Harra, a single mother of four unable to work due to adult onset muscular dystrophy, the garden is her lifeline. Her "oasis.""I have so much determination to live this way . off the land in my backyard," Harra told The Star Press (http://tspne.ws/1acA8ol ). "I'd do it crawling if I had to." Harra said her urban farming enables her to provide for her family. As her independence diminishes, she said her garden gives her...
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