Containers with a Twist

When Jan Richenburg moved back to her family’s Salisbury, Massachusetts, farm, she knew that agriculture per se wasn’t her calling. Still, she had the green gene, plus the old Puritan practicality, in her DNA . Faced with barns full of water troughs, chicken feeders, enamel sieves, and buckets galore, plus all the other various leftovers from over two centuries of farming under their rafters, the Yankee in Richenburg wanted to put all her family’s excess equipment to good use. That’s when she got the idea of pairing anything that could hold potting soil with plants. She saw a colander and instantly imagined a

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What to do with a farm that’s been in the family since George Washington was president? Jan Richenburg decided to keep it contained.

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