Duane Kolbe Photo Fifth Annual Donation Avid area gardener Duane Kolbe of East Linden Township recently made his fifth annual donation of 2,000 pounds of organically grown butternut squash to three area food shelves — New Ulm, Mankato and St. James. Kolbe attributes his gardening success to a “kind Mother Nature” together with a generous application of “TLC.”

Avid area gardener Duane Kolbe of East Linden Township recently made his fifth annual donation of 2,000 pounds of organically grown butternut squash to three area food shelves — New Ulm, Mankato and St. James. Kolbe attributes his gardening success to a “kind Mother Nature” together with a generous application of “TLC.”