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Sustainable living using aquaponics

I originally wrote this story for the June / July issue of Liberty Life Magazine published in 2015. The mere thought of losing the love of his life sparked a complete turnaround in Herbert Stacy’s daily routine. The owner of Stacy’s Florist in Hinesville says he was devastated when his wife, Donna, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006. “We’ve been married 28 years. We met on a blind date … and got engaged on our eighth date,” Donna Stacy recalls. She joked that she thinks he proposed quickly because he was tired of driving to Atlanta, her home at the time. “We were a little bit older when we got married, had our children later, and it’s been wonderful,” she says. With sons Adam and Scott Stacy all grown up now, the loving couple were enjoying their lives, staying busy running the store that’s been in Stacy’s family since 1976. The news of Donna Stacy’s health condition was an unexpected jolt. “I am doing very well now,” Donna Stacy says recalling the difficult time her fa...