This First Person column is written by Tony Ho, who lives in Vancouver. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ.
My four-year-old son eagerly picks vibrant green wine grapes from the vine. We’re playing a game to find which ones are bursting with sweetness or will make him pucker his lips. The vines are several years old; their twisted, woody stems deeply embedded into the chain-link fence lining one side of my mom’s container garden in the back alley of her east Vancouver apartment.
I love watching my son help water my mom’s container garden and she
