Bridgeport, Connecticut [RWJF.org]

Samantha Sangenito 11/9/154:00 AM

Bridgeport is Going Green to Improve Health

Three years ago, Angel Torres-Sosa avoided the menacing, vacant lot around the corner from his Bridgeport, Conn., home. The neglected area in the Reservoir neighborhood was smothered with weeds and trash.

Today, however, the 16-year-old spends every day he can there.

The site has been transformed into the Reservoir Community Farm, a bountiful urban site run by a nonprofit on city land and staffed by 20 local youth interns. Torres-Sosa tends to vegetable beds, sells produce at a farm stand, takes school classes on guided tours and even offers customers advice on preparing kale or collard greens. In the meantime, he and his peers are racking up the skills and knowledge to be community leaders.

[For more of this story go to http://www.rwjf.org/en/library...e-bridgeport-ct.html]

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