At a “Weed and Feed” event at the Chuckanut Center last Saturday, John Egbert tugged a dense clump of wild fennel root he'd just excavated from the fence line of the center's sprawling garden space next to Fairhaven Park on Chuckanut Drive and asked if I wanted to take the plant home with me.After I declined, pointing out I already had plenty of the fast-growing roadside pollinator encroaching on my own fence line, Egbert took a break from digging to share how he'd first found out about the
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