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Rose had been doodling Abby Rose had been doodling her dream home for a year, so when she walked up to the listing for an affordable one-story apartment in Traverse City, Michigan, she knew it was home before she even looked inside. Native oaks and maples cast dappled shade on the front and back yards, but Rose, 34, could create the gardens she envisioned, leaving plenty of sunny expanses with fruit trees and wood-chip paths between neat beds of flowers and vegetables. "It was love at first sight," he recalls. Community Garden to keep Before buying her own little piece of heaven in the fall of 2016, Rose joined the Traverse City Community Garden to keep her hands on the earth. She grew up 200 miles northwest of the area as the crow flies, watching her mother tend more than 100 garden beds on the Keweena (KEE-wen-aw) Peninsula, a mile from Lake Superior at the tip of Michigan. Upper Peninsula. Exploring his native soil as an adult led to a connection with his moth