Totally homegrown Basin's Backyard Garden donation

two women smiling and holding vegetables
Sabrina Hojian, Basin Electric network security analyst II and veggie taxi driver, delivered the veggies to Heavens Helpers Soup Cafe.

This year's garden growing season in North Dakota has been slower than normal. Aug. 2 marked the first day in 2022 that the Basin's Backyard Garden donation was totally homegrown.

Gardeners brought in rhubarb, beets, cucumbers, tomatoes, peas, and zucchini, making for a 35.6 pound donation of all homegrown produce for donation.

Sabrina Hojian, Basin Electric network security analyst II and veggie taxi driver, delivered this week's veggies to Heavens Helpers Soup Cafe. Heavens Helpers is a soup kitchen that is set up like a restaurant in which people come in, seat themselves, and a volunteer takes their order and brings them food. Each day, there are two soup options, two sandwiches, a salad bar, and dessert and beverage options.

"They were so thankful for fresh veggies and asked how we got them," Hojian says. "I told them these came from our employees, and asked what they planned to do with it. They told me it will all get used."