Lettuce Share

We visited Hunsader Farms yesterday for the 8th annual Manasota BUDS Buddy Walk.  Go Team Ella Bella Buddies; we raised $1, 056!  The last I checked, the Buddy Walk total was at $60,365!  That’s a whole year’s worth of music therapy, scholarships, new parent kits, the list goes on!  BUDS is the best non-profit I’ve ever worked with – not a dime goes to salaries.  People are involved because it means something to them; it’s grass roots at its finest and Ubermommy’s best deed by far.  She’ll probably roll her eyes at this in all of her modesty, but she’s leaving a legacy with BUDS.  She started the support group in 2002 after her daughter, Ella, was born with Down syndrome.  At the time, there were no local resources, no place and no one for her to reach out to.  She changed that by creating BUDS.  What started with two families now serves over a hundred families.   I’m proud to be a part of it every year.

The bonus of the Buddy Walk is that you get to do a good deed and then enjoy the Hunsader Farms Pumpkin Festival.  After eating snow cones, we get lost in the corn maze and checked out their produce.

We decided on some purple peppers and a carrot the size of Cooper’s arm!