Feeding the Hungry With City Hall Gardens

By Vanessa Richins

In the wake of the new White House Vegetable Garden, similar plots are popping up at government buildings around the nation.

One such garden (which they insist was planned before the White House Garden came to be) will be located around the City Hall building in Baltimore, Maryland.

The new Baltimore City Hall Vegetables gardens will be planted where their formal gardens are now located.

It will be almost twice as big as the WH garden, boasting 2000 square feet total.The harvest from the decorative urns, window boxes and raised beds will be donated to Our Daily Bread, a soup kitchen that feeds 700-800 people every day.

The Baltimore Sun interviewed Roger Doiron from Eat the View about this new City Hall vegetable garden. “This news about Baltimore is Read the rest of this entry »