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Farm stand is a fresh food oasis
By Linda Lipp llipp@kpcmedia.com
In the middle of an area that has been described as a “food desert” because of its lack of access to fresh food and grocery store options, the Johnnie Mae Farmstand in Fort Wayne’s Renaissance Pointe neighborhood gives residents the opportunity to put produce on their dinner tables on Friday night that was plucked out of the ground Friday morning. It doesn’t get much fresher than that. The garden on the plot of land at 2518 Winter St., also home to an old fire station that has been renovated for the community’s use, isn’t very large. But its location is perfect for serving a market that for years has had very little access to the fresh produce necessary for a healthy
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diet. The number of visitors to the farm stand has picked up steadily since it opened June 1. Each Friday when it opens, “A steady stream of people show up,” said Kelly Lundberg, deputy director for community development in the Office of Housing and Neighborhood Services. “Usually the first customers are there within five minutes of when the doors open.” The city has owned the property, “pretty much forever, it seems,” Lundberg said. After the fire station operations were mothballed, it was used by the neighborhood for canning, and then just sat vacant. “When we initially went into the neighborhood and started looking at See FARM STAND, Page 21 BRIDGETT HERNANDEZ
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Fort Wayne native documents journey on Appalachian Trail By Rod King
For IN|Fort Wayne publications
When Fort Wayne native Trevor Krall took his first step Feb. 22 on the 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail, his main goal was to finish before his 30th birthday and complete the hike in about five months. On July 25, he completed his journey, two weeks before his self-imposed deadline. When he started out on the trail that spans from Georgia to Maine, little did he know that at one point along the way he’d find himself buried in a blizzard in the Smokey Mountains, not knowing if he would freeze to death before morning. At another point, he found himself crammed into a small bit of old canal near Harper’s Fair for four hours while a tornado
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A few weeks into his hike on the Appalachian Trail, Trevor Krall snaps a selfie.
swirled around him. He also hadn’t expected to find himself in the hands of a caring elderly couple in New Hampshire’s White Mountains
who fed him and gave him Tylenol to help him shake a fever that was threatening to bring his See TRAIL, Page 17
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