[CPEO-BIF] "Urban Agriculture Grows in Baltimore," Maryland

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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
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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