Despite the wet spring, yesterday over 200 students from Westridge elementary school of West Des Moines came to Iowa Gardening for Good and help catch up on vegetable planting. Four buses arrived with third- and sixth-graders that came as part of a service project to help plant vegetables that will be grown and donated to food pantries in the Des Moines area. The students were divided into groups and rotated between stations that included transplanting peppers, planting potatoes, zucchini, turnips and cabbage...
