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| Fafard, Inc. Staffers Plant for PAR The Fafard staff are planting and maintaining this 1,000-square-foot PAR vegetable garden at the new corporate headquarters in Agawam, Mass. Produce goes to the Open Pantry. Fafard donated the small PAR 2001 row markers. |
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| Award for PAR Star Joan Jackson San Jose Mercury News' Steve Wright presents GWAA member Joan Jackson with the first-ever PAR Certificate of Appreciation at a retirement ceremony in July. Joan didn't just provide PAR's original how-to literature since beginning her PAR campaign in 1995, she has raised more than 50,000 pounds per year for area food banks and last year alone topped 127,000 pounds. After 38 years at the Mercury News, one of the many things Joan will be doing is writing freelance articles for a weekly, The Pinnacle News, in San Benito County. And, bless her, she is setting up a PAR program for them, too. |
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| Joe Maple's Master Gardeners Win Top ScottsAward GWAA member Joe Maple and the Spartanburg (S.C.) Master Gardeners won $5,000 last year in the Scotts first-annual Good Neighbor Gardener category of the "Give Back to Grow Awards" that honor PAR participants. Since 1996, Joe's group has struggled to keep this PAR garden going. In its second year, just as crops were ready to harvest, thieves picked the place clean. In year three, Joe got funding for a chain-link fence. The four churches to whose soup kitchens the Master Gardeners donate are now growing PAR gardens in their own backyards. To obtain an application for the Scotts' awards, call 800.551.5971 or visit www.scottscompany.com. |
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