This Community Learning To Grow Its Food
Many of the new gardeners didn’t know how to grow vegetables, and weren’t sure what to do with them once they did.
They learned, though, as part of a project by a local college to help a community hard-hit by the recession grow some of its own food.
Wilmington College provided the 20 plots and the guidance in this southwestern Ohio town after DHL Express decided last year to close its operation here, putting most of 8,000 Wilmington Air Park employees out of work. Local unemployment has soared to 15 percent.
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