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Amy Stone
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	A large, unfriendly dog lives right next to the garden!  You don’t really have a fence around your garden but your gardeners have a high trellis and mix-matched fencing  (just to block the view of the dog).  The dog has knocked down the trellis more than once as he attempted to charge at some of the gardeners.  When he gets loose off his chain he tears straight through the garden to destroy as much as possible.  When he's loose and in the garden some gardeners are afraid to come in.  The owners of the dog say they try to keep him in their yard but they work a lot and sometimes he's hard to control.  How can your community garden handle this bully?
	Vegetables and flowers are disappearing from the garden on a daily basis.  The gardeners have been discussing it and you think that someone is stealing the produce at night.  How are you going to solve this problem?
	It's the hottest summer on record, your hoses all have holes, the closest house with a water faucet is 400 feet away and the water pressure is so low that the sprinkler only throws the water in a three-foot circle.  The plants are very stressed but you are not going to give up.  What are other possible watering solutions?

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