For three generations, Mississippi Joe shared cucumbers, squash, corn and other produce he would harvest, giving them to his neighbors and friends -- something that the 72-year-old community hero has no plan of stopping anytime soon.
EAST PALO ALTO, Calif. -- A backyard garden can provide food for a family. However, there's a special garden on the Peninsula tended by one man who has fed neighbors for three generations and has brought the community together.
He goes by the name Mississippi Joe. And this is where you find him every day, tending to a vegetable garden. Almost everyone in East Palo Alto knows him because of his kindness. "Giving is something special when you give," he said."It makes you feel good when you can hand out something to someone else."For 48 years, when the cucumbers and squash and corn and onions and tomatoes and other produce are ready for harvest, Mississippi Joe will share them with his neighbors and friends. It's something that stayed with him, growing up in the South.
"We always shared the food with each other 'cause some of them didn't have food sometimes, and then what we had we'd share it," he said."He's always had that attitude of just giving, free spirit, just constantly giving," said next door neighbor Carl Arrington, who has known Mississippi for over 40 years."The sincerity that he has, the love that he has for the community, we've all been blessed.
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