Photo courtesy of Duane Kolbe Avid area gardener Duane Kolbe of East Linden Township recently made his 8th 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.”

Photo courtesy of Duane Kolbe

Avid area gardener Duane Kolbe of East Linden Township recently made his 8th 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.”