[CPEO-BIF] Frogtown Garden, St. Paul, Minnesota

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

With $3,000 in startup funds, Our Village Gardens helps transform a  
former brownfield site

Anna Pratt
The Line (MN)
June 20, 2012

This spring, Frogtown Gardens got to work on a new community garden  
at a former brownfield site in St. Paul's Frogtown neighborhood.

It took $3,000 to set up the 30-plot community garden, called Our  
Village Gardens, according to Patricia Ohmans, who is a spokesperson  
for Frogtown Gardens.

...

The gardeners are a diverse group, including Hmong, Somalis, Latinos,  
Vietnamese, African Americans, European Americans and others.  
"There's lots of energy and cross-pollination among them," Ohmans says.


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For the entire article, see
http://thelinemedia.com/devnews/ourvillage062012.aspx

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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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