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Illinois market and community garden honored

All those involved with the Illinois Products Farmers’ Market and the State Fairgrounds Community garden are being honored Tuesday night. Acting Illinois Ag Director Jim Larkin says both projects have become “huge successes for the department and for the community.”

More than 160 plots were planted by more than 100 gardeners who contributed part of their produce to the Central Illinois Food Bank through the ‘Plant a row for the hungry’ program.

More than six-thousand pounds of food was donated throughout the summer – distributed to area food pantries and soup kitchens.

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