Urban Garden Supplies Local Brooklyn Residents With Fresh Food Options

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Urban Garden Supplies Local Brooklyn Residents With Fresh Food Options
NEW YORK - JULY 11: Yonnette Fleming, a director of the Hattie Carthan Community Market, sorts through produce on its first day of selling locally-grown organic produce in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn July 11, 2009 in New York City. Poor inner city neighborhoods have often been without access to fresh organic produce but a program sponsored by the Green Guerillas, and other advocacy groups, help bring the market to the area for the first time, even arranging for the use of public assistance food cards (formerly food stamps). Community gardens are growing in number in urban areas around the country, as environmental concerns dovetail with inner-city rebirth to create new ways for underprivileged families to buy fresh food. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)