For Schoolyard Gardens, a Global Network

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For Schoolyard Gardens, a Global Network

By TAMIR ELTERMAN

"It’s hard to find fresh produce in San Francisco’s Hunters Point district, classified as an urban “food desert” by the Department of Agriculture because of a lack of supermarkets and an abundance of toxic soil. Many of the neighborhood’s 34,000 residents live below the poverty line, a legacy of separation from the rest of the city and the area’s history as a former naval shipyard where radiological research and ordnance testing were carried out."

 

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