Plantation Park Heights Urban Farm - Interview #1
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Plantation Park Heights Urban Farm - Interview #1
Description
Plantation Park Heights (PPH) Urban Farm grows food, flowers, and herbs of various varieties for the community and local pantry. PPH workforce now includes 250 elementary school children, 33 teachers, 39 parents and is on a mission to grow 200,000 pounds of food to address the community’s “food desert” designation. PPH organizers will be able to address community need during the pandemic by distributing cooked food and need the construction of a demonstration kitchen to engage residents in the process. The CSRC grant will be used to design and build a demonstration kitchen on site with the dual goal of providing community with prepared food and advance Food Supplement Nutrition Education within the community. The proposed Food Distribution and Outdoor Kitchen project will engage and impact communities associated with 5 schools in the neighborhoods (MLK Elementary, Edgecombe Circle Elementary, Pimlico Elementary/Middle, Creative City Public Charter , Arlington Elementary). All programming will be coordinated with support Park Heights Renaissance Community Education Outreach Team and the school Principals. Dr. Shauna Henley of University of Maryland Extension, Baltimore County, will join as consumer food safety specialist.
Table Of Contents
Return on investment in human capitol and natural resources 04:50
Date Created
August 14, 2020
Interviewer
Karim Amin
Arion Laws
Kayla Wheeler (Advisor)
Interviewee
Richard Francis (Farmer Chippy)
Community
Plantation Park Heights Urban Farm
State
Maryland
Place
Baltimore
Genre
oral history
Institution
Subject
Farming
Natural Foods