. >>> this week our foot soldier is ladonna redman.s ago she discovered her infant son had severe food allergies. then she discovered how difficult it was to find food that was best for him. healthy food that was not genetically modified and was free from pesticides. grocery stores in her neighborhood didn't carry organic food. the stores further away that did had prices that were too high. so la spdonna and her husband converted their backyard into a small garden. she grew lettuce, tomatoes and succeeded in growing corn on the west side of chicago. she was now able to take care of her son's particular food need. but the reason that she is this week's foot soldier is because ladonna didn't stop there. in 2001 she started the institute for community resource development, which ran a farmer's market for her chicago neighborhood. by 2005, ladonna and her husband had expanded her backyard garden to six vacant lots, growing more than 40,000 pounds of produce per year to address one of our country's most expansive problems, the fact that mor