Meet the activists bringing urban farms to one of America's most deprived cities
by Nina Lakhani in Cleveland from on (#4VSR1)
One in three people in Cleveland and surrounds live in a food desert. But the desperation for healthy food has kicked off one of the biggest urban farming movements in the US
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Autumn foliage signals the end of the growing season across the rust belt states as farmers wind down for the winter chill.
Yet in Cleveland's bleak "forgotten triangle", bountiful crops of rainbow chard, collard greens and plump purple aubergines are blooming at one of the city's urban farms.
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