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Program helps Waterloo-area residents start home gardens
KRISTIN GUESS, Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier
July 2, 2021
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WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) As a child, Dan Sperry-Weber lived on a farm near Raymond. He fondly remembers helping his family grow tomatoes, onions and other produce each summer. As an adult, various obstacles led Sperry-Weber away from the garden.
His daughter knew he had a desire to tend to a garden again one day. Earlier this year, through the Northeast Iowa Food Bank, she discovered a new University of Northern Iowa program and signed up her father.
It’s called A Garden in Every Lot, a UNI and Green Iowa AmeriCorps program that helps aspiring gardeners start their own home garden at no cost.
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