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Hard-hit community learns to grow food

Quick ReadHard-hit Ohio community turns to gardens to help stretch food dollars

WILMINGTON, Ohio (AP) — Many of the new gardeners didn't know how to grow vegetables, and weren't sure what to do with them once they did.

They learned, though, as part of a project by a local college to help a community hard-hit by the recession grow some of its own food.

Wilmington College provided the 20 plots and the guidance in this southwestern Ohio town after DHL Express decided...

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