Community Gardens: A City in Need

In my English 101 class, we were given the assignment to write a mock proposal that we would send in to our city. I propose that Baltimore City create certain tracts of land throughout the city to be designated to the cultivation of gardens, both floral and vegetable, tended to and cared for by the citizens of Baltimore City at their leisure. And although the challenges of growing plants in the city include shadows from buildings …showed first 75 words of 2080 total…

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