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FREE SPEECH ZONE | Environmental Justice Growing Anew on the North Side

Christina Getaz and Mackenzie Henk plant at 409 Logan Ave.

Urban gardens and farms are popping up across North Minneapolis, redefining environmental justice as a quest for solutions for urban spaces. This June and July a team of young people, wo

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Urban Farms Offer Solutions

By Evelyn Hadden, TC Daily Planet

a 2009 Backyard Harvest garden in mid-season

MINNEAPOLIS, March 2, 2010- With its goals of expanding the local foodshed in the Twin Cities and providing urban dwellers with more access to fresh produce and the skills to grow it, the Backyard

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | Urban farming needs you

By Becca Reilly, Free Speech Zone

Dormant spinach beds in winter, in the greenhouse.

Activism is often wound up with community gardening, and vice versa.

Becca blogs at Persistent Press

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