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Nov 26, 2008

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." --J. R. R. Tolkien

40,000 at a Farm in Colorado

As a thank you to customers, after being informed of raids in local churches where food was being stolen, two farm owners in Platteville, Colorado sent out an open invite to their community to help themselves to any of the harvest off their 600-acre farm! Joe and Chris Miller, the farm owners, were stunned when more than 40,000 people showed up. "'Overwhelmed' is putting it mildly," they said of their reaction.