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Apr 2025
24m 58s

Spring at the Allotment (Encore)

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Originally Aired: April 22, 2019 (Season 3, Episode 7)


Our story tonight is called Spring at the Allotment, and it’s a story about setting up a garden of herbs and vegetables with a friend. It’s also about a picnic basket full of sandwiches, turning over the soil with your hands, and the pleasure of sewing seeds in neat rows on a bright sunny day.


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