Eco City Farms are becoming more popular in cities and towns around the Unites States. 

Eco City Farms in Edmonton, 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. Her son Alston Clark thinks his experience is 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 started Eco City Farms. She thinks of it as a place where people can learn to live healthier lives. "Growing food in a community brings people together,"she continues,"Every piece of what we do here is a demonstration to show people everything about how to have an eco-friendly 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. 

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 green house use a geothermal system. 

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

"I like eating the vegetables "say five-year-old Owen Moss.
What is becoming more popular?
Where is it?
What can people learn there?
What brings them closer together?
According to whom?
What kind of animals do they raise in this place?
What other living beings do they take care of?
Do they only grow vegetables in the summer?
What do they do with food waste?
Who volunteers there?
Who specifically?
Is she a mom?
To how many children?
Do they go to school?
Where did she take them?
Do they enjoy it?
Who else goes there once a week?
How do they get there?
What do they use to get there?
What does one of her sons like?
Eco City Farms
Eco City Farms are becoming more popular in cities and towns around the Unites States. 
Edmonton, Maryland
Eco City Farms in Edmonton, Maryland, is located near shopping centers, car repair shops and homes.
how to live healthier lives
She thinks of it as a place where people can learn to live healthier lives.
Growing food
Growing food in a community brings people together
Margaret Morgan
Margaret Morgan started Eco City Farms. She thinks of it as a place where people can learn to live healthier lives. "Growing food in a community brings people together,"
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t they are not only growing food and raising chickens and bees, but improving the soil with compost made from food waste. 
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 they are not only growing food and raising chickens and bees
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Vegetables can be grown all year. 
improve the soil.
, but improving the soil with compost made from food waste. 

people from the community
Over the past two years, the farm has attracted volunteers from the community like Marcy Clark. 
Marcy Clark
Over the past two years, the farm has attracted volunteers from the community like Marcy Clark
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 Marcy Clark. She schools her four children at home. 
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She schools her four children at home
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. She schools her four children at home
Eco City
 On a recent day she brought them to Eco City Farms for a lesson. 
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Her son Alston Clark thinks his experience is very valuable."I like coming out here,"he says,
Chris Moss and her three children
 So once a week, all winter long, neighbors like Chris Moss and her three children bike to the farm to pick up a share of the harvest. 
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So once a week, all winter long, neighbors like Chris Moss and her three children bike to the farm to pick up a share of the harvest. 

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So once a week, all winter long, neighbors like Chris Moss and her three children bike to the farm to pick up a share of the harvest. 
eating the vegetables
"I like eating the vegetables "say five-year-old Owen Moss.