Posted on Feb 23, 2021
The urban farmers doing door-to-door deliveries during Covid
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The microwave plays a significantly more important role to urban farming in Baltimore than you might first imagine.
“Our butternut squash comes from a seed which makes it little and easily microwaveable,” Gwen Kokes, food and farm programme director at Civic Works, told The Independent. “For our [customers] this is really important as it might be too expensive to turn on the gas to cook or the oven might not be working.”
The squash, along with a range of produce, is grown at Real Food Farm, one branch of Civic Works urban service corps program in Maryland’s largest city.
The farm started about a decade ago and spans eight acres in northeast Baltimore with four fields, more than 100 fruit trees, a greenhouse for seedlings, and eight “hoop houses” which, for the uninitiated, are a sort of passive greenhouse with crops planted directly in the soil but sheltered by heavy-duty plastic sheets stretched over frames.
“Our butternut squash comes from a seed which makes it little and easily microwaveable,” Gwen Kokes, food and farm programme director at Civic Works, told The Independent. “For our [customers] this is really important as it might be too expensive to turn on the gas to cook or the oven might not be working.”
The squash, along with a range of produce, is grown at Real Food Farm, one branch of Civic Works urban service corps program in Maryland’s largest city.
The farm started about a decade ago and spans eight acres in northeast Baltimore with four fields, more than 100 fruit trees, a greenhouse for seedlings, and eight “hoop houses” which, for the uninitiated, are a sort of passive greenhouse with crops planted directly in the soil but sheltered by heavy-duty plastic sheets stretched over frames.
The urban farmers doing door-to-door deliveries during Covid
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Posted 3 y ago
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I used to put out huge gardens when my children were little. They helped daddy as best they could. Nothing beats home grown! As they got older their interest wandered but they are all glad now that they learned something about gardening for their own small gardens. Time has gone by and we don't need those huge gardens but we always grow a few tomatoes, peppers, squash and several other vegetables. Thanks for the post PO1 William "Chip" Nagel!
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Cpl Vic Burk Never had a Huge Garden but Sometimes Bigger than Average, Lots of Farmers in My Heritage though. For Me it was just Fun that I Could Eat. Strawberries, Concord and White Grapes. After Spending My Summers in the Pacific Northwest with Grandchildren I started Growing Blackberries and Raspberries in Kansas.
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Posted 3 y ago
I know one particular crop grown by urban farmers that has been getting door to door delivery for decades....
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Posted 3 y ago
Here we call those "delicata squash" A mini winter squash with an edible skin.
I wish we had that where we are...I would love to buy produce that locally
I wish we had that where we are...I would love to buy produce that locally
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