Someone did this for me when I was young, ... Someone - I don`t know who - started a community garden in the middle of Philadelphia, and that`s where I got the skills I needed to make it in the world. When I came here, Doug King knew how to support me while I did for others what had been done for me.
We needed this for morale. We have the talent, the desire and the ambition to win, we just hadn`t. I have been trying to teach them to believe that they can win.
So many kids are going more and more into the different focus like technology. That`s one of the areas 4-H has really tried to meet those changing needs.
The girls don`t like to lose, ... They were like, `We don`t want to experience that again.`
We would love to see these sites nominated to the Network to Freedom. I`m sure there are valid sites in Connecticut.