After a decade as an oasis in the South Baltimore food desert, Filbert Street Garden has added another feature along with its garden plots, fruit trees, beehives and menagerie of chickens, ducks and goats:
Free community Wi-Fi.
“We realized that food deserts and data deserts are really in the same locations, so it makes sense to use these community green spaces to tackle the same problem,” said Charles DeBarber, assistant manager at the garden, located on a hill in Curtis Bay.
Internet is hard to access in this working class area on the southern fringe of the city – the nearest free public WiFi is at the public library in Brooklyn, a 30-minute-or-so walk away.
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