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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