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Associated Press Story on WC's Community Gardens Goes International

Feature Appears in 2.4 Million Print, Web, Blog and Broadcast Media from Atlanta to Sacramento, Singapore to India

11/12/09

The centerpiece of Wilmington College's Grow Food, Grow Hope initiative is being heralded across the nation and the world as an Associate Press feature story by Daniel Sewell was released to AP subscribers Nov. 11. As of Nov. 13, the story appeared on some 2.4 million TV and radio broadcasts, newspapers, blogs and Web sites.

The story highlights the community gardens program in which 20 4x12 foot vegetable garden plots were given to local families that expressed an interest in learning to grow fresh, nutritious vegetables — and save money at the same time. Many of the families' breadwinners were unemployed or underemployed.

Here is a link to the Associated Press story that appeared in the Nov. 12 Denver Post: DENVER POST

Media as far away as Singapore and India have that picked up the AP feature. They include: The New York Times, CBS News, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Naptional Public Radio, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, San Diego Union Tribune, Sacramento Bee, Philadelphia Inquirer, AOL India, Yahoo Singapore, Omaha World Herald, Kansas City Star, Las VegasNow.com/Channel 8, Mother Earth News, San Antonio ExpressMiami Herald, St. Louis Today, Federal News Radio, Rapid City Journal, El Paso Times, Rock Hill (SC) Herald, Real Clear Politics, My Northwest Seattle, News 2 Charleston, SC, KGUN Ch. 9 Tucson, AZ, KCOY Ch. 12 San Luis Obispo, CA, American Familty News Network, Atlantic Broadband, Bellingham (WA) Herald, BAY News 9 Tampa, Sacramento News, The Southern Ledger, KCBA Fox 35 Monterey, CA, CH13 Central Florida News, Augusta Chronicle, Connecticut Post,  and Denver Post.

From Ohio: WHIO-TV Dayton, WCPO-TV Cincinnati, WLWT-TV Cincinnati, Akron Beacon Journal, Cincinnati Post, Port Clinton News Herald, Marion Star, Mansfield News-Journal, Fremont News-Messenger, Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum, Akron Reporter, Alliance Review, Ashland Times-Gazette, Wilmington News Journal, Zanesville Times-Recorder, Amherst News Times, Bellevue Gazette, Clyde Enterprise, Newark Advocate, Oberlin News Tribune, Ottawa County Exponent, Peninsula News, Swanton Enterprise and Wellington Enterprise.

Also, it's appeared on numerous specialty sites, including: Tweetme, Chron, Treehugger, Bahcesel habersel, Century Link, Topsy, Backwoods Home Magazine, Pantagraph.com, Mail Times, My Freeze, Bent Broadband, Wow!, Topix, NoFlakPress.com, SuddenLink and Century Link.