From vacant lot to full plate: New partnership creates South Dallas urban farm
The effort brings jobs and access to nutritious food to an underserved area.
By Kimber Westphall
Dallas Morning News
Oct 21, 2021
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“Growing up, it was me, my mom, sister and one brother,” said Tyrone Day, Hatcher Station Training Farm manager. “My mother used to give me a list to go to the Farmers Market and get collard greens, fresh fruits and vegetables so we could have a good meal on Sundays.”
One of the pandemic’s latest silver linings is the urban farming partnership sprouting up in a vacant lot next to the training farm in South Dallas. It’s expected to lead to job growth and access to fresh, nutritious food for the area.
The two groups making this happen? Love, Tito’s (Tito’s Handmade Vodka’s charitable extension) and Restorative Farms. A vacant lot no more after its Sept. 15 groundbreaking, the new apprentice farm near DART’s Hatcher Station will allow Restorative Farms to train a generation of local growers.
Organizers hope it will ultimately create an opportunity to support even more community gardens and farms throughout Dallas and beyond. Day couldn’t agree more.
