By Patrice Worthy, Photo: Oakland Avenue Urban Farms, The Guardian, March 5, 2022
For the last 10 years, residents in the south Baltimore neighborhood of Cherry Hill who struggled to access affordable food had a reliable place to go.
Visitors to the Cherry Hill Urban Community Garden, a 1.5-acre urban farm, would find cheap, fresh vegetables and a strong sense of community.
But in the spring of 2021, the farm received an eviction notice. For Eric Jackson, servant director of the Black Yield Institute which managed the land, it was a huge blow. The farm’s influence went far beyond the kale, peppers and other fresh produce it sold at 50% below market rate, he says.
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