Black Butterfly Teaching Farm, Baltimore
Baltimore, United States · Operator: Farm Alliance of Baltimore
Overview
A teaching farm inside Baltimore's Farring-Baybrook Park, between the Curtis Bay and Brooklyn Homes neighbourhoods. It grows vegetables and produces honey while running growing classes for residents, a business incubator for aspiring urban farmers, and mental-wellness programming built around plant care — a working farm that doubles as an educational centre.
Citizen participation
Residents take part in agricultural education aimed at letting them grow their own food. The farm also runs a business incubator for aspiring urban farmers and programming on mental wellness and personal growth through caring for plants.
Operating model
Operated by the Farm Alliance of Baltimore, a network of city farms, inside an existing municipal park (Farring-Baybrook Park). Alongside vegetables it keeps bees and produces honey.
Impact
It turns an existing public park into a place where local residents can grow food and test a livelihood in urban farming. Its operator speaks of family in a part of Jamaica "where they grow a lot of the food that they eat" — the farm also carries agricultural knowledge across generations and places.
Land tenure
Operated inside a city park (Farring-Baybrook Park); the exact form of the agreement is not published.
Crops
- 野菜
- はちみつ
Scale
ファーリング＝ベイブルック公園内（カーティス・ベイ地区とブルックリン・ホームズ地区の間）。面積は公表されていない
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