As part of a HuffPost and Patch collaboration, dozens of local Patch editors went out to talk to their neighbors about the debt ceiling.
After a disturbance, resources in a local patch can thus be exploited by locally surviving individuals, but also by individuals arriving from other patches.
Middleton thought as he walked, daily, around his local patch.
It was the first to be in song on my new local patch this year.
On my local patch in Somerset, there are no wood warblers.
Still, I'll never tire of watching the fastest creature on the planet, right here on my local patch.
Someone told Simon Hughes I was on his local patch, and I was surprised to get a call from him.
Things might be clinging on somewhere in Britain, but they very likely have vanished from your local patch.
On an evening's walk around my local patch, on the edge of the Somerset Levels, I heard a piercing call, almost as high-pitched as a dog whistle.
That's why I love visiting my local patch; for no matter how quiet it gets, something usually turns up – just like that green sandpiper.
