Urban Farm Nurtures New Crop of Citizens

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SOUTH EL MONTE -- Mary Maverick dug up weeds between rows of tiny pepper plants and pruned brown leaves off tomato vines Tuesday.

Since the rains stopped, Maverick and a group of volunteers have slowly transformed a barren, 4-acre plot of county land into an urban farm, replacing weeds and piles of dirt with rows of vegetables and buckwheat.

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Urban Farm Nurtures New Crop of Citizens

So far, she and the volunteers have planted 1 1/2 acres, installed an irrigation system and put up a fence around the land, ...

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