Lara Lepionka (center) began gardening to help feed her family in the midst of the 2008 recession.
Lara Lepionka recalls the seeds of Backyard Growers well. It was 2008, in the midst of the recession, and the married mom of two babies was underemployed. She and her young family were struggling to make ends meet. And so, with an idea perhaps born as much out of desperation as inspiration, she decided to start planting vegetables in her tiny yard in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
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