An AnnoTATEd STudEnT RESEARCHEd ARgumEnT 209Gardening and Cooperative Extension, offer free public educa-
tion to cities beginning community agriculture programs, and
some will even perform on-site training (Brown and Carter 16).
By harnessing the assets of local, gratuitous knowledge and
supplementing that knowledge with national support groups,
South Bend has multiple resources available to train and encour-
age its burgeoning urban farmers.
The economic and nutritional gains of the people would
only be heightened by the personal well-being that is born of inter-
personal collaboration that crosses racial and social boundaries.
Such an effort is ambitious; it will indeed require the time and tal-
ents of many people who care about the health of their community.
But the local community is rich with the necessary seeds for such a
project, which may, in time, blossom and grow to feed its people.19Paul 11Works Cited
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