Growing project battles hunger
04-14-2008
Retired FEMA worker realizes vision in 40 acres of volunteer-grown watermelons, cantaloupes, green beans, beets, turnips, onions, corn, peas, cucumbers, potatoes, okra and lima beans - for charity. 'If we don't do something, then we're not going to close this poverty. Obesity. Diabetes. It's a gap we're not even trying to zero in on.' He says youthful volunteers 'almost through sensing it,' know the hungry kids in class.
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Tags: Amber Brady, America's Second Harvest, Blue Ridge Food Bank, Bob Blair, Brian Smith, Capital Area Food Bank, Compassion Cupboard, Fauquier County, FEMA, Ginny Hamrick, James Madison University, Loudon County, Michael Armstrong, potato fields, Shenandoah, Shenandoah County, Steven McFarland, Strasburg, Strasburg High School, USDA, Volunteer Farm, Woodstock, Wynettia Slaughter
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