Need a Reason to Plant a Garden? How About Ending Starvation

This story in Culinate about Penelope’s Garden in Portland, Ore., touched me.

This unidentified family — after apparently adopting a child who too intimately knew hunger — decided they could make a bigger difference by turning their backyard space into an edible garden.

The idea is to donate the produce to an organization that serves needy families.

What an entirely selfless act.

Ultimately, this caring family’s goal is for others to join them in growing gardens like Penelope’s Garden, or by sharing the harvest from their own gardens “so that Portland will become known as the city that eliminated hunger from their community simply by growing gardens.”

How many backyard gardens would it take to end hunger in your area?