Dan Barker initiated the Home Gardening Project in 1984 and has since built, free of charge, more than fourteen hundred raised-bed vegetable gardens for the aged, the disabled, single mothers, and caring institutions. In 1996, arthritis, angst, and reduced funding led Barker to hang up his hammer and begin a foundation to help others start their own garden projects. He says this effort is “predicated on the notion that we’re all in this together, that nothing gets done unless you do it, that impoverishment is nonselective, and need universal.”