Winter weather won’t stop Civic Works Food Program

The Baltimore Times
Stacy M. Brown
12/17/2014

BALTIMORE — With colder temperatures and wintry weather on the horizon, officials from the nonprofit Civic Works’ Real Food Farm program say they won’t slow down their efforts to improve neighborhood access to healthy food and develop Baltimore’s agriculture sector.

It’s also not the time to stop providing education to city students and finding ways to protect what many say is a debilitated nutritional environment.

“Real Food Farm is continuing urban farming efforts in Baltimore City despite cold temperatures and winter’s icy, snowy conditions,” Dana Stein, the executive director at Civic Works said in an email. “The Civic Works program will maximize efforts in winter months by growing produce that survives in frigid temperatures, including root vegetables and leafy greens, lettuce, kale, carrots, turnips and beets.”

Civic Works officials said the nonprofit has amplified its educational initiatives for the winter season, teaching volunteers the importance of agriculture, food access programs and infrastructure development to strengthen farm to table programs in urban environments.

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