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Diane Blazek, executive director of the National Garden Bureau, explains why her organization is raising money to help Growing Solutions Farm in Chicago. It was established by the Julie and Michael Tracy Foundation and is dedicated to helping autistic young adults succeed as urban farmers. Military veterans Sara Creech and Alicia Moore are also helping to teach people how to work the land, on Blue Yonder Organic Farm In this case, it is their former comrades in arms whom they hope to reach, as a way to show them how to make a living and to perhaps heal the psychological wounds of war.