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PETERSBURG OASIS COMMUNITY FARM
MEET THE FARMERS
Tyrone Cherry
Petersburg Is Growing / Petersburg Oasis Youth Farm
Bianca Anthony
Seeds of Life Farm
Natasha Crawford
Healing Hope Urban Gardens
Obar Moyo
The Backyard Farmer.
ABOUT THE PETERSBURG OASIS COMMUNITY FARM
Redistributing Land to BIPOC Beginning Farmers
Located within a food desert with high rates of poverty and food insecurity, and across the street from an elementary school serving over 500 students who are 88.9 percent Black, 5.9 percent Hispanic, and 91.4 percent economically disadvantaged, the Petersburg Oasis CommUNITY Farm is situated in a location that gives this project the opportunity for incredible social, health, and economic impact.
The 5 Acre Farm Space:
- Provides public elementary and middle schools with nutrient-dense local food access
- Provides farm education for K-5 students
- Works with Virginia Tech and Virginia State University to teach and engage students in agriculture
- Serves as an incubator farm for beginning farmers
- Has an outdoor kitchen, 30 x 96 greenhouse and on farm cold storage
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