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Noah Curtis was eager to be an entrepreneur; he left college before completing his degree in economics to start his own business. He decided his business would be landscaping, which he loved. His business plan called for the things you might expect, such as helping homeowners and businesses keep their property neat and beautiful. The idealistic part: Curtis, 27, wanted his company to build community and feed the hungry, too. Curtis’s method for achieving the more altruistic parts of his plan involved building a little all-weather shelving unit out of cedar. He called it a trade station and put it in a neighborhood with a sign encouraging people to leave any excess produce from their gardens on the shelves. It also invited others to take those donations, whether they donated anything or not. Think of them as Little Free Libraries, but for cucumbers instead of books. A year later, more than 50 trade stations are spread out over eight counties around Louisville and stretching into Southern Indiana, and an active community of people contribute to them and benefit from them.
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