Employees with Aramark and Bon Secours planted vegetables Tuesday in West Baltimore to bring fresh produce to an area known as one of the city's largest food deserts.
The volunteers planed vegetables at the Bon Secours' Hoop House, built earlier this summer on a vacant lot at the corner of North Fulton Avenue and West Fayette Street.
The Hoop House, which stands 22 feet wide and 72 feet long, is an urban farm where fresh fruits and vegetables are grown.
Bon Secours Community Works uses the hoop house to create a workforce development opportunity for its program participants, who will tend to the garden and run a produce stand.
This day of service event was hosted in coordination with Aramark Building Community
A 2015 report by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, in collaboration with the Baltimore Food Policy Initiative, found that one in four of the city's residents live in so-called food deserts with limited access to healthy foods.
