Victory gardens are going back in style, and it’s children who are gaining from their revival.
“I show the kids — here’s a beet, here’s how you pick it, here’s what it tastes like,” says Maureen Branstetter, farmer at Drumm Farm.
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Drumm Farm in Independence, Mo., isn’t just home to organic fruits and vegetables, it’s home to foster parents and children and a golf course, too. The hundreds of acres owned by the Andrew Drumm Institute used to all be a conventional farm, but now the farm here is only about three acres, “with the goal being to keep the home for the children,” says farmer Maureen Branstetter. Foster parents and children who live here can avail themselves to as much fresh produce as they’d like, and the children often work or volunteer on the farm themselves. [...] |
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