Reilly Brock may have grown up in Berkeley, California, but he knows plenty about rural life in Knox County, Ohio. As a student at Kenyon College in Gambier and an intern with the school’s Rural Life Center, he helped to establish Rural by Design, a community garden initiative that provides free local produce for low-income senior citizens living in Knox County. Reilly grows and harvests the vegetables and packages regular pick-ups that include freshly harvested produce and a recipe. “Healthy produce can be somewhat expensive,” he says. “We are trying to bridge that gap and make healthy food accessible for everyone.”

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