Choosing Food in the Meat Space: Navigating the Modern Supermarket's Shoals Community.Gardens Another choice for people who don't have enough sunny property to plant their own gardens is the community garden. In this variation of growing food, a town or cooperative divides up some available land into small plots that you plant with vegetables or flowers. The cost of renting or acquiring a plot is usually very cheap. Depending on the community, you can get a 15-foot by 15-foot plot for around $20 total (and smaller plots for less). A friend of mine tells me that the only downside is that you might have neigh- bors that use nasty pesticides that you don't want near your vegetables, but that the overall effect is that you end up with more fresh food than you need, and the community-garden vibe is a pleasant and congenial one. gooD neighBor sAm's eggs Are heAlthier The next time you snicker at that frenetic gaggle of chickens your neighbor keeps in his front yard, consider their high efficiency as a food source. A "free ranging" chicken--one that scampers around pecking grass, seeds, and insects--lays much more nutritious eggs than a caged factory chicken. Good neighbor Sam's eggs are virtually vitamin pills residing in a shell. Ac- cording to the Mother Earth News, here's how pasture-raised eggs compare with "standard factory farm eggs": beta carotene--79 mcg vs. 20 mcg;