On a crisp morning in the struggling Bay Area city of Richmond, Calif., Doria Robinson prepares a community vegetable garden for an onslaught of teenagers who will arrive that afternoon. Beyond the farm, a Chevron refinery pumps plumes of smoke into the atmosphere. The farm won’t remove the pollution, but Robinson believes it can make the city’s residents healthier in other ways, specifically by showing them that “their actions have an impact.”
“Down here it’s hard to see what matters,” Robinson says, “that you matter, that your neighborhood matters.”
[For more of this story, written by Amy Maxmen, go to https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...urban-ills.html?_r=0]
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