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grow-06 is bringing the lecture room outside and the neighborhood together.

college students and residents in Walnut Hills are growing neighborhood gardens with a view to combat food insecurity and provides healthier meals options.

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neighborhood contributors are working to get all arms on deck when it comes to starting and carrying on with more healthy existence.

In 2017, the only supermarket in the local closed its doorways rendering Walnut Hills a food desert.

There at the moment are a complete of eight city gardens all the way through the community, growing to be lettuce, radishes, tomatoes, collard veggies and more.

Frederick Douglas and DAMPE group school students meet at their faculty gardens each week. youngsters are actually harvesting before the iciness, they'll then learn the way to do seed starting indoors before planting again next spring.

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