as more and more people started working with the plant a row concept, new variations cropped up, if you will pardon the pun. many companies gave free seed to customers and displayed the logo, which also appeared in national gardening publications.
row markers with the plant a row logo were distributed to gardeners to set apart their "row for the hungry."
garden editor joan jackson, backed by the san jose mercury news and california`s nearly year-round growing season, raised more than 30,000 pounds of fruits and vegetables her first year, and showed gwaa how the program could really work.
texas fruit farms donated food to their local food bank after being inspired by plant a row. today the program continues to thrive and grow.
i am stunned that millions of americans are threatened by hunger. if every gardener in america - and we`re seventy million strong - plants one row for the hungry, we can make quite a dent in the number of neighbors who don`t have enough to eat. maybe then i will stop feeling guilty about abandoning a hungry man i could have helped.