City farms are gaining popularity in cities and towns around the United States. 

City Farms in Edmonston, Maryland, is located near shopping centers, car repair shops and homes. The neighborhood is a working-class community. People do not have very much money, and they have limited access to fresh food in markets. 

Over the past two years, the farm has attracted volunteers from the community like Marcy Clark. She schools her four children at home. On a recent day she brought them to Eco City Farms for a lesson. Alston Clark thinks his experience very valuable. "I like coming out here, "he says, "You know, you connect with the earth, where your food comes from. You appreciate the food a little bit more. " 

Margaret Morgan-Hubbard started Eco City Farms. She thinks of it as a place where people can learn to live healthier lives. "Growing food in a community and showing that you can have farms even in the city is helpful to strengthen the relationship in that community and brings people together, "she continues, "Every piece of what we do here is a demonstration to show people everything about how to have a sustainable community. "she says. From the Eco City Farms people come to know that they are not only growing food and raising chickens and bees, but improving the soil with compost made from food waste. Sixteen wooden bins are filled with worms. Their job is to eat the food waste and help make it into compost. 

Eco City Farms is an experimental operation. The farm gets its power not from the local electricity networks but from the sun with solar panels. In winter, the greenhouses are heated using a geothermal system. 

Vegetables can be grown all year. So once a week, all winter long, neighbors like Chris Moss and her three children bicycle to the farm to pick up a share of the harvest. 

"I like eating the vegetables, "says five-year-old Owen Moss.
Who started Eco City Farms?
Where does it get its power from?
How is it heated in the winter?
How many bins are filled with worms?
Who is Marcy Clark?
Does she have 5 children?
How many does she have?
What does she do with them?
Where did she take them for a lesson?
Can vegetable be grown for only half the year?
How long can they be grown?
What did Owen Moss say?
How old is he?
What do the worms in the bins do?
For how many years has City Farms in Edmonston attracted volunteers?
Who thinks his experience is extremely valuable?
What kind of an operation is Eco City Farms?
How do Chris Moss and her kids get to the farm?
How does Margaret Morgan-Hubbard think of the farm?
What does it strengthen?
Margaret Morgan-Hubbard
Margaret Morgan-Hubbard started Eco City Farms
the sun
 The farm gets its power not from the local electricity networks but from the sun 
a geothermal system.
the greenhouses are heated using a geothermal system. 
Sixteen
Sixteen wooden bins are filled with worms
a volunteer
volunteers from the community like Marcy Clark
No
Marcy Clark. She schools her four children at home
four
Marcy Clark. She schools her four children 
she teaches them
She schools her four children at home
to Eco City Farms
she brought them to Eco City Farms for a lesson
No
Vegetables can be grown all year
all year
Vegetables can be grown all year
I like eating the vegetables
"I like eating the vegetables, "says five-year-old Owen Moss
five
 five-year-old Owen Moss
make compost
worms. Their job is to eat the food waste and help make it into compost
two
the past two years, the farm has attracted volunteers
Alston Clark
Alston Clark thinks his experience very valuable
experimental
Eco City Farms is an experimental operation
bicycle
Chris Moss and her three children bicycle to the farm
as a place where people can learn to live healthier lives
She thinks of it as a place where people can learn to live healthier lives
the relationship in that community
 farms even in the city is helpful to strengthen the relationship in that community