Master Peace Farm is one awesome urban farm+school+community garden
The University of Maryland supports an urban farm project in the greater D.C. area; Riverdale, MD, to engage the community in localized production and consumption. This has been enabled through a partnership with the food stamp nutrition education program, now a bifurcated part of the USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, with work efforts from students and volunteers with the mission to till, educate, collaborate and nourish.
Participants are offered an opportunity to buy into one of the “22 community garden plots that are assigned to neighbors for the grand sum of $10 per year, which is returned if the gardener sticks with it for the whole season, so it’s actually free.” The “main garden” is cultivated by students who mentor local youth and contribute to a farmers market. Tools, water and vegetable starts are all within reach. In return, participants propagate community, food and the future.
