A Maple Grove church is marking the growth of a garden program that uses church land to help feed people in the northwest metro.
Just behind Advent Lutheran Church, the Giving Gardens now include 78 plots used to combat hunger in the northwest metro.
Mackenzie Vang of Blaine said this was her first year off the waiting list for the Giving Gardens. Vang came to the United States from Laos in 1981 and has been a member of Advent Lutheran Church for many years…