Glen Ellyn's Tina Koral Launches GardenWorks to Help Families in Need
GardenWorks is a grassroots program in its second year in DuPage County. The program will help families in need grow their own fresh vegetables.
The ground is hard as a rock and planting season is months away, but for one Glen Ellyn resident, gardening season can’t arrive soon enough. Tina Koral, owner of landscape design firm Tina Koral Gardens, is not thinking about her own garden. Rather, she is planning how to help others throughout the area learn to grow and cultivate their own food. Koral founded GardenWorks DuPage, a grassroots project with the goal of eliminating hunger and providing fresh, healthy produce to families in need. Families who participate in GardenWorks will have a vegetable garden planted at their home and receive instruction on how to maintain the plot. The GardenWorks project helped four families last year. Koral and her husband funded the project, she said…
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