Hunger. It still exists. There is enough food in the world. Pope Benedict says
there is a sharing deficit. And it's unacceptable when we are talking about kids. Eating is
a basic human right he declared.
http://www.h2onews.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=224449727#
The good people at Common Good City Farm in DC might well agree.
www.commongoodcityfarm.org
In what used to be a shut down elementary school's baseball diamond a half acre of
property in the heart of Northwest Shaw-LeDroit Park area just behind Howard University
Hospital is an unbelievably thriving farm complete with fig, apple, and peach trees, and
every kind of vegetable you thought that you couldn't grow in a city. The roof collects
rainwater through a system of gutters that feeds into a cystern that is linked to the
ground drip irrigation system. Large watermelons, peppers, tomatos, beans, corn, kale,
spinach- and its all organic.
Nearly every variety of herb, including rare medicinal ones are found there.
This is a gem in the city. Their mission is to provide quality low cost fresh organic produce
as part of the 'food justice' movement which seems exactly what the Pope is talking about.
They are for green sustainability and recycling compost back into the earth to replenish
anything taken away. There are many programs for
low income people to get cheap eats-such as the one where if you work for two hours during
the day you are rewarded with a bag of vegetables.
They are educational in mission inviting groups of kids from schools and after school
programs to visit and even pick and harvest as they walk them through the many varieties
of berries, and green leafies. Do you have a scout troop or boys and girls club that
might want to learn about what urban sustainable organic gardening looks like? Give
them a call. They are there to feed the world.
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