Bumps on the Road to a Greener City.

If no good deed is allowed to go unpunished, Kathryn Martinez should have seen two punishments coming. To reduce their reliance on commercial food sources, she and her fiance planted a vegetable garden in the backyard of their home in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn. Hesitant to pick their lettuce too soon, they left it in the ground. When they finally pulled it up, the lettuce had gone bad. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]