Creating Jobs & Community Gardens in Cincinnati

I'm a big fan of audio slide shows. This one from NPR's Latino USA is a little light on photos, but it does a good job describing a new program in Cincinnati that converts empty city lots into community gardens.

Faced with a dwindling population of nearby farmers, Cynthia Brown, the director of Cincinnati's Findlay Market, applied for and received a $219,000 USDA grant and created the Cultivating Healthy Entrepreneurs and Farmers (CHEF) program. "Ohio alone loses 1,000 family farms a year to agribusiness and people selling out to developers, so we need do something to keep fresh food in the city," Brown says.

-Mark

Comments

[Jason]

Err, Cynthia Brown is Findlay's Farmers' Market Manager, not the Market's director.