LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - If you do any gardening at home, you know how rewarding it can be to see things grow.

If you plant vegetables, the fruits of your labor are especially sweet, as we found out from a woman who is making an impact with her green thumb.

Mary Seeterlin gets overjoyed about okra, pumped about egg plant, she gushes over garlic, and raves about the rhubarb.

She’s equally fond of all the onions, cabbage, broccoli, peppers, lettuce and tomatoes in the Cristo Rey Community Garden, right behind the Cristo Rey Community Center in north Lansing.

Seeterlin adopted the garden three years ago, and with her cultivating care, the community garden is now thriving.

Mary says it’s been her calling to help make an impact on Lansing’s urban desert, where there’s just not enough food i

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