Inch by Inch, Row By Row... A better world starts with dirt under the nails. By 6:30 every week-day evening, when it was warm enough, Debessay had shed his work clothes for a T-shirt and shorts and was outside. Hauling away debris, hammering in railroad ties to frame raised planting beds, trolling garden centers. Into the ground he buried the uncertainty and stress of his immigrant life. As a stone in his garden is inscribed, "the earth laughed back in flowers." Here's hoping your laughs are filled with ladyslippers and wild orchids today. Read The Strib Article “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” Martin Luther King, Jr. Fighter For Peace