[CPEO-BIF] Addressing Food Security through Area-Wide Brownfields Redevelopment in Lawrence, Massachusetts

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

In the spring of 2010, the City of Lawrence launched a program called the “Neighborhood Community Garden Initiative” to utilize strategically situated, city-owned brownfields for food production in poor neighborhoods. The initiative was the city’s response to what was happening on the ground. Residents in low-income neighborhoods, particularly many recent Latino immigrants, who have a tradition of gardening and running local farm stands, were developing garden plots on Lawrence’s vacant lots and brownfields without city authority or soil testing.

To download Robert Hersh’s 6-page, 2.5 MB PDF report for CPEO, go to

http://www.cpeo.org/pubs/LawrenceGardens.pdf

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Lenny Siegel

Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight

a project of the Pacific Studies Center

278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041

Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545

Fax: 650/961-8918

<lsiegel@cpeo.org>

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