The following appeared in the “Homes & Gardening” section of the Star Tribune on March 21, 2021.
Roseville nurse and her plant sales support a school that is raising a nation in Tanzania.
By Rohan Preston Star Tribune
This garden in Roseville is the creation of nurse Bethany Husby. 
Bethany Husby with her husband, Paul. She holds an annual plant sale to raise funds for a school being built in Tanzania. 
Bethany Husby, far right, in Tanzania with Emmanuel Boaz, foreground, who inspired her to support the school after she met him on a trip to the country several years ago. 
She divides her plants for each year’s sale, which have raised thousands of dollars for the school. 
A flower in Bethany Husby’s garden. 
A bee hovers among delphiniums in the garden. 
A water lily in the garden pond. 
An orange lily in the garden. 
Brown-eyed Susan flowers and purple coneflowers in the garden. 
The garden pond.
In January 2017, Bethany Husby traveled with her family to Tanzania for a safari vacation that doubled as her 55th birthday celebration. Besides bonding and quality time, the group hoped to see and photograph lions, rhinos and giraffes.
But capturing charismatic megafauna was far from Husby’s only indelible experience. As she was buying stamps for a postcard to send back to America, Husby struck up a conversation with the sales clerk, a shy young man about the age of one of her three sons, who was bursting with educational dreams.
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