Gerri Hall stepped onto a bathroom scale, noting the number. Grabbing a sack of fresh eggplant, she watched the digits rise and scratched down the total. The gardener repeated the process with bundles of squash and tomatoes until she had recorded the weight of all the vegetables.
Simple arithmetic fixed the total at 35 pounds.
"When you have squash and eggplant, it doesn't take much to rack up that weight," said Hall, an assistant gardener at Brookside Gardens, a 50-acre public display garden in Wheaton Regional Park. "It's fun to think someone's going to benefit from this."
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