Plantation Park Heights Urban Farm - Interview#2

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Title

Plantation Park Heights Urban Farm - Interview#2

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

Ifa Spirituality [00:19:00]

Date Created

August 21, 2020

Interviewer

Harold Morales
Kayla Wheeler (Advisor)

Interviewee

Richard Francis (Farmer Chippy)

Community

Plantation Park Heights Urban Farm

State

Maryland

Place

Baltimore

Genre

oral history

Subject

Ifa
food
urban farming
food sovereignty
healing