The $250,000 Wheelchair

by Jesse Beyer

Edith Schaeffer has always had a passion for gardening.  She gardens over an acre of land in Lacombe County.  Edith even teaches gardening classes to almost 25 students on her farm.  She teaches them how to plant, maintain and harvest their very own vegetables.  She also has a herd of beef cattle, two llamas and two cats.  Now this is a tall order for any person to balance, but Edith does all this from a wheelchair.  Edith’s legs are both amputated from the knee up.  But her passion is still alive and well when it comes to gardening.

She explains as she looks at her empty garden. “When you see a patch like that, you just know I need to get out into it.”