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      One Garden at a Time Why did the shelter Katie often visited close?


                                                                                                       It closed due to a lack of funding.


                                                           One day when Katie arrived with baskets of




                                                    vegetables from the garden, she found that



                                                    the shelter she often visited had closed due



                                                    to a lack of funding. Katie had another idea.




                                                    She began Katie’s Krops Dinners. With the


                                                                        n. a person who works without expecting payment, often to help others
                                                                                                                                                   volunteers
                                                    help of her school, Katie’s Krops volunteers


                                                    plan, cook, and serve dinners using crops





     ▲     Katie grows much                         from their gardens. Together, they have fed

           more than cabbage
           in her garden these                      thousands of people in the past five years.

           days.



                                                                                                                                          Unit 4 | One Garden at a Time
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