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'A Garden Can Be Anywhere'

In her sumptuous new book, Lauri Kranz—garden guru to the stars—will inspire even apartment dwellers to grow their own food.
"Every time I see Lauri, I come away feeling nourished," says client Maya Rudolph of Kranz, above. "Her superpower is her warmth."
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Lauri Kranz's passion was always large, but she started small, in her father's vegetable patch behind their house in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The land sloped down to the edge of a wood, and as a child she would work by his side, "talking or not," she says, "pulling weeds and watering—that was enough magic for me."

There were cucumbers on the vine, a watermelon or two, juicy tomatoes and towering sunflowers. And when she'd venture beyond the garden, into the woods, she found skunk cabbage and "low-growing shrubs, dripping with red berries. It was my entry into the

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