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Climate Corps America: The urban farms transforming how America’s most vulnerable communities eat Louise Boyle © Provided by The Independent The microwave plays a significantly more important role to urban farming in Baltimore than you might first imagine. “Our butternut squash comes from a seed which makes it little and easily microwaveable,” Gwen Kokes, food and farm programme director at Civic Works, told The Independent. “For our [customers] this is really important as it might be too expensive to turn on the gas to cook or the oven might not be working.” The squash, along with a range of produce, is grown at Real Food Farm, one branch of Civic Works urban service corps program in Maryland’s largest city.

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