FREDERICKSBURG TRANSPLANT GETTING HER GREENS Laura Shepherd practices what she preaches

EVERYBODY DOWNTOWN KNOWS LAURA SHEPHERD.

She's that back-to-nature gal who pulls up in a big orange pickup, leaps out, crams on a floppy straw hat, grabs her tools, then works in the yard like no woman you've ever seen, pullin' weeds, diggin' holes, sawin' dead wood and draggin' branches.

She's at Hyperion knocking back coffee every morning at 8 and seems to know everybody.

You DO know, she's that gal with the long frizzy braids, always got those earth shoes on and dirt under her fingernails. She's that downtown [hippie chick].

Yeah, that's Laura Shepherd.

She is one of the city's freest spirits, a single woman in her 40s who listens to her own inner voice.

It tells her to tread lightly on this earth.

So she lives simply, frugally and respectfully in a society dominated by extravagance, excess and disregard.

In the 1960s and '70s, Shepherd would have had many compatriots among the nation's ardent Read More

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