[CPEO-BIF] "From Brownfield to Community Vegetable Garden, " Bunnell, FLorida

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

>From Brownfield to Community Vegetable Garden, a Coalition Seeds Fresher Health

Flagler Live (FL)
December 14, 2015

For years the lot at the intersection of Martin Luther King and South Bacher Street in Bunnell was a propane farm that serviced the area’s housing authority tenants. The tanks were removed when the authority converted to natural gas, leaving behind the tanks’ concrete “cradles” that, to less knowing eyes, looked like gravestones. The lot was considered a brownfield—a zone that may or may not have been contaminated by its previous use, but also a zone that qualified for rejuvenation through a federal Environmental Protection Agency grant.

Flagler County’s economic development department secured one such $600,000 brownfield grant about three years ago. Earlier this year it connected with the housing authority and the Flagler County Health Department to explore converting the lot into a more useful plot of land—namely, a community vegetable garden similar to one across the street that helps feed dozens of tenants. The idea then filtered into the schools, including Flagler Palm Coast High School, Buddy Taylor Middle and Bunnell Elementary, whose students got to work.

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For the entire article, see
http://flaglerlive.com/88717/brownfield-bunnell-garden/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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