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Article: Growing vegetables, confidence: Developmentally disabled learn gardening at Bill Stewart Center.
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- Decatur Daily (Decatur, AL)
- Article date:
- July 8, 2007
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Byline: Kristen Bishop
Jul. 8--MOULTON -- Mentally challenged residents in Lawrence County are growing vegetables, flowers and self-esteem in a new garden at the Bill Stewart Center.
Regional Extension Agent Jerry Chenault, center employees and volunteers completed the garden in June, and participants there -- whom the staff refers to as "consumers" -- now are able to learn a new skill while creating a product.
"We wanted to be able to train them and show them what it actually meant to grow their own vegetables and see their work through to a finished product," said Center Manager Donna Dutton.
"They're so excited to know they can grow ...