Twin Cities businesses are shunning manicured lawns on their corporate grounds in favor of ‘giving gardens,’ where employees and other volunteers raise produce for food shelves.
By Bob Shaw
bshaw@pioneerpress.com

If lawns had legs, they would be running scared.

This summer, volunteers are tearing up the manicured lawns of corporations, replacing them with “giving gardens” to raise produce for food shelves.

“We are helping the Earth and helping people at the food shelves,” said 10-year-old Matt Perron, of Stillwater, as he labored in a Lake Elmo garden late in July. “Those are two really great things to do.”

Increasingly, businesses agree.

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