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Saturday, March 14, 2009 12:21 AM

Photo by Elliot J. Sutherland/The Ottawa Herald


Joan Vibert checks on her plants Thursday morning in the basement of her rural Franklin County home. The plants will be transplanted to an outdoor garden later in the season. Vibert has been growing organic produce off and on since 1994 and recently started a community-operated garden at her farm near Homewood.

‘To me, community happens around food’

By JODIE GARCIA, Herald Staff Writer

Photo by Elliot J. Sutherland/The Ottawa Herald
Plants flourish in a container holding broccoli and cabbage Thursday morning under the ultraviolet lights in the basement of Joan Vibert’s rural Franklin County home. “They’re like my babies,” Vibert said
Joan Vibert makes her way to the basement of her old home.

There, her babies await.

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