Oakland Urban Farm Provides Fresh Produce To Inner City Residents

Lettuce grows in a box in front of City Slicker Farm's Center Street Farm June 25, 2009 in Oakland, California. City Slicker Farm, a non-profit community organization, is growing thousands of pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables made available on a sliding scale to residents of West Oakland, an area that has 60 percent of its 20,000 residents living below the poverty line and not one grocery store in the eight square mile district. City Slicker Farms has dozens of gardens built in vacant lots and back yards of homes throughout the area.

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