2011 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:01:21 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: [CPEO-BIF] "Urban Agriculture Grows in Baltimore," Maryland
 
Urban Agriculture Grows in Baltimore
Urban farms are sprouting up in vacant city spaces.


By Alison Kitchens
Capital News Service
September 29, 2011

BALTIMORE -- Surrounded by boarded-up homes, broken windows that showcase leaky ceilings, rusting emergency ladders and abandoned clotheslines, Lolita Slocum picks a tomato to cook with her dinner.

Slocum, who has lived in Baltimore's Midway neighborhood for more than 30 years, had no gardening experience, but she jumped at the opportunity to maintain a plot at the Boone Street Community Garden and Farm.

"When just nothing but space is here, people take advantage of it in very wrong ways," Slocum said. "This is beautiful, it teaches us how our parents had to work so hard for their food."

Boone Street is one of a growing number of farms and community gardens within the city planted on


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For the entire article, see
http://reisterstown.patch.com/articles/urban-agriculture-grows-in- baltimore

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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