Introduction

Members of local gardens from across leonorde's neighborhood are showing off their biggest and strangest vegetables. Leonora's local garden is called el flamboyan, and it surrounds a small, one story house, or casita - which literally means little house in spanish. Back in the 19 fifties, these types of casita were found throughout the porto rican countryside. But leonorda isn't in porto rico. She's a new york city, in a busy borhood in the south franc seogen los carus.