While many of Baltimore’s urban spaces don’t have the proper soil conditions to support a newly planted orchard, the folks at the nonprofit Civic Works have come up with a solution: Make the orchards portable, and bring them to the communities that need them.
The inaugural “Moveable Orchard” will sprout on April 27 at the Baltimore Food Hub in Broadway East. Once 3.5-acre brownfield property, the redeveloped campus now hosts a culinary job development program and start-up food incubators. And soon, they’ll have their own fruit supply.
“Moveable orchards allows us to re-imagine urban settings, and really [are] the seed for a larger concept,” said Eric Sargent, a planting coordinator at the Baltimore Orchard Project.
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