This City Created the Largest Free Food Forest in the Country, Where Anyone Can Pick Fruits and...

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...Veggies

There’s a seven-acre farm in Atlanta where residents can walk into a forest, take a deep breath, and begin pulling crops right off the land for dinner.

Shannon Lee, The Conservation Fund Parks with Purpose Program
A one-time pecan farm, the Food Forest at Browns Mill project contains 2,500 edible and medicinal plants available to anyone in need.

It’s one of a growing number of free-food forests cropping up in cities around the country, as citizens and organizations both public and private attempt to grapple with problems of hunger and food deserts.

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This City Created the Largest Free Food Forest in the Country, Where Anyone Can Pick Fruits and Veggies

 

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...Veggies

There’s a seven-acre farm in Atlanta where residents can walk into a forest, take a deep breath, and begin pulling crops right off the land for dinner.

Shannon Lee, The Conservation Fund Parks with Purpose Program
A one-time pecan farm, the Food Forest at Browns Mill project contains 2,500 edible and medicinal plants available to anyone in need.

It’s one of a growing number of free-food forests cropping up in cities around the country, as citizens and organizations both public and private attempt to grapple with problems of hunger and food deserts.

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This City Created the Largest Free Food Forest in the Country, Where Anyone Can Pick Fruits and Veggies

There a Biblical root in this. We are suppose to give part of our harvest to the poor yet they are suppose to glean it themselves not get it as a handout. Every city should have such gardens especially in food deserts. If they did we might end food insecurity.