Tiny gardener, big impact
A very young vegetable gardener is one of People magazine's Heroes Among Us.
Katie Stagliano, an 11-year-old fifth-grader from Summerville, S.C., raised and donated 5,000 pounds of vegetables to soup kitchens and homeless shelters this season.
It began last year when Katie planted a cabbage seedling in her family's backyard. It grew to be an amazing 40 pounds, and Katie donated it to a homeless shelter.
Two days later, according to People, she returned to help serve some of the 275 meals made with her giant cabbage (along with ham and rice.)
"I never felt so good in my life," she told People.
Working with donated land in her sub-division, outside of her town and at her school, and enlisting the help of volunteers, she and her crew supplied soup kitchens with squash, okra, cabbage and other vegetables.
Comments
Go Katie!!!!
If everyone who could grow some food did, and then gave away part of it to those who can't ... it would make a large difference.
I agree, Lazy Gardens. I have this hope that the whole veggie gardening thing that got such a start this year will explode into something really wonderful. -- Susan
Posted by: Lazy Gardens | October 20, 2009 2:03 PM