We have turned an empty and forgotten piece of land in Cleveland’s Kinsman Neighborhood into an urban farm where we grow produce to bring healthy, local food to area institutions and citizens and train others on this work.

We farm. So far, we’ve built two green houses, four hoop houses and a 40,000 Sqft. Aquaponics fishery. One of our greenhouses is dedicated to our Classroom settings with aqua farming of “black talipia” fish. Soon we will be adding perch, blue gill, bass and another types of talipia to our tanks.

We create “black gold,” our super nutritious soil. How? From produce discarded by the Cleveland Food Bank; from wood chips from the city of Cleveland’s forestry department; from coffee grounds supplied by local coffee houses and others; from leftover hops from Little Mountain Brewery in Kirtland and from Black Box Brewery.

We educate youth. Our Youth Educational Programming falls under our “Green ‘n tha Ghetto” banner. It is geared toward educating and entertaining young people and the general community on environmental sustainability. Our Brink City comic book series is one of the tools used to reach the urban youth.  We partner with collaborators to educate youth and adults on environmental stewardship, training others to reclaim fallen urban fields and transforming them into productive plots of land that offer healthy local food.

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