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C O ME A N D GRO W Briggs Avenue Community Garden continues to nourish minds and bodies after 10 successful years B Y M O RG A N CA RT IE R WE STO N P HOTO G RA P H Y B Y JO HN MICHAE L SIMP SO N
ravel three miles south of downtown and you’ll find the flourishing Briggs Avenue Community Garden tucked among a mix of trees and industrial buildings. “The garden has a score of different vegetables, an apiary and a fruit tree orchard,” says Christa Gibson, community outreach coordinator for the Durham County Cooperative Extension. Every county in North Carolina has a similar office – designed in partnership with N.C. State University and N.C. A&T State University – to extend agricultural and nutritional education as well as 4-H youth programs that improve economic and social 62
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april 2021