IICF Month of Giving: America's Grow-a-Row's mission to expand access to fresh produce

In 2002, I started a 30-foot-by-30-foot garden with my four-year-old daughter. My fun father-daughter project quickly yielded more cucumbers, zucchini and other produce than our family needed, could use or could give away to friends and coworkers. When I saw a short three-line mention in the newspaper encouraging people to donate extra produce to a local food pantry that said, "grow a row for the hungry," America's Grow-a-Row was born...