Avid area gardener Duane Kolbe of East LInden Township recently made his sixth annual donation of 2,000 pounds of organic-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.”

Photo courtesy of Duane Kolbe

Avid area gardener Duane Kolbe of East LInden Township recently made his sixth annual donation of 2,000 pounds of organic-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.”