Urban farm promotes sustainability, community in central Toledo
Seed to Bloom lets children 5-17 years old grow and sell produce in the Junction neighborhood.
By Maya May
WYOL 11
June 10, 2023
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Kids 5-17 years old learn what it takes to grow food in a sustainable environment at an urban farm in the neighborhood. Every Friday and Saturday the young farmers work at Tatum Park Urban Wholistics Farm in the free program sponsored by the city.
The farm lets the children work in a small orchard of fruit trees, a hoop house filled with watermelon plants and other garden beds where produce will grow this summer.
Youth leaders on the farm believe this hands-on experience will change the way kids see their food.
“I feel like the kids are really going to love filling in the dirt planting their own seeds watering them each week they come and just seeing them throughout the summer just grow and grow,” said Manhattan Cook, 14, a teen herbalist with the program. “Allowing them to be out every Friday and Saturday to plant their own things they can one get knowledge and two they can be excited about planting.”
The summer program is part of the expansion of Sonia Flunder- McNair’s vision. Flunder-McNair is the founder of Sonia Organics and Urban Wholistics.
