As other shoppers scoured store aisles for rolls of toilet paper in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Janssen Evelyn was searching for tomato seedlings.
Every year around April, Evelyn stocks up on plants and gardening supplies for the upcoming growing season. But when he went to the nursery last year near his home in Columbia, the shelves were a lot emptier than usual.
Evelyn said he felt “a little possessive” at first. But that feeling gave way to excitement with seeing more people taking up gardening as a hobby, especially as the pandemic has disrupted traditional food resource channels and exacerbated food insecurity across the country.
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