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☆ This Seed Season, Consider a Catalog That Takes a Different Approach
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Margaret Roach | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

It takes a village, not a threshing machine, to complete the harvest of pounds of watermelon seeds that will fill the simple, white packets sold by Turtle Tree Seed. “Nobody minds helping with the watermelon-seed collection,” said Lia Babitch, the seed company’s co-manager. She’s not just talking about their crew: Residents of Camphill Village, in Copake, N.Y., where Turtle Tree is headquartered, are happy to join in. It’s a pretty sweet task, after all, that involves eating the fruit of yellow-fleshed Early Moonbeam, or perhaps an heirloom like Moon and Stars, and spitting the seeds into cups provided for that purpose — the first step before washing, drying and eventually packing them for sale.

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☆ At Camp Naru, Nobody Is ‘an Outlier’
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Christopher Lee | Joshua Needelman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In the summer, he would attend camps for members of the Korean diaspora where Jason, who was born in South Korea, experienced a beautiful sense of belonging. At the beginning of this year, he transferred to Drexel University, where the 2022 incoming first-year class was 25.2 percent Asian. His decision was rooted in his experience at Camp Naru, which is designed to help campers and counselors alike develop and grow confident in their Korean identities. “It’s hard being the only Asian,” Jason said. But camps like Naru help members of the diaspora — adopted and otherwise — reconnect to their heritage, and with each other.

☆ Curb Appeal, Schmurb Appeal. These Buyers Didn’t Care About the Home’s Exterior.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Alina Dizik | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

When Tamela Greene started her search for a second home in New York’s Hudson Valley, she knew exactly what she was looking for: ugly. Various additions to the home had created multiple rooflines and siding materials that looked disjointed, plus it was painted a kind of beige-yellow and had dead trees in the front yard. No surprise, it had been on the market for about two years. “We looked at 30 homes and this was the ugliest on the outside,” says Ms. Greene. “People would drive by the house and say, ‘Ugh, that’s awful!’ ”

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