Translate "Chicken Soup for the Soul: Planting a Line for the Hungry" by Jeff Tam Fells into Chinese.

It was a cold night in Washington, D.C. I was going back to my hotel when a man came up to me. He asked me if I could give him some money to eat. I read the notice: "Don't give money to beggars." So I shook my head and walked on.

I'm not going to answer, but I'm helpless He said, "I'm really homeless. I am really hungry! You can come with me and watch me eat! " But I keep walking.

This matter troubled me for a week's rest If I hide the money in my pocket, he (it) won't kill me, even if he is lying. On a cold night, no one is the worst I think.

Flying back to Anchorage, I couldn't help thinking of him. I don't think I can help government agencies, churches and charities to help him there. Besides, you should not give money to beggars.

Somewhere in Seattle, I started writing my gardening column for the Anchorage Daily News Weekly. Suddenly, an idea occurred to me. Cafes and kitchens in Towntown, Anchorage, Alaska feed hundreds of hungry people every day. Why not try to get all my readers to plant a special row of beans in the garden? Give a line and write it to the beans. Clean and simple.

We didn't save time, but the idea began to take off. People will fax or call when they put these flowers who only grow and donate their things. The spirit of food. And my conscience.

1995, the Association of Landscape Writers held its annual general meeting in Anchorage, USA. After Anchorage, it was planned that plants should learn beans for a line and become a line for hunger. The original idea was that for a period in April, every member of the American Horticultural Writers Association wrote or talked about planting for a hungry row.

As more and more people begin to associate with the concept of plants, there are new changes, if you will forgive the pun. Many companies provide customers with free seeds and display signs, which will also appear in national garden publications.

In addition to the "line" of hunger, a row of similar signs were distributed to gardeners.

Joan Jackson, the garden editor, planted more than 30,000 pounds of fruits and vegetables in the first year with the support of San Jose Mercury News and California's almost all-year growth period, and showed everyone how GWAA really made this project work. The food donated by Texas Fruit Farm to the local food bank was inspired by plants. Today, the plan continues to flourish.

To my shock, millions of Americans are threatened by hunger. If every American gardener-there are 70 million of us-grows crops for hungry people, we can reduce the number of neighbors who don't have enough food. Maybe then I will stop thinking that giving up a hungry person can help criminals.