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Vegetable farming takes root in Seattle-area food desert By Michelle Hiskey, American Heart Association News
Published: July 5, 2021, 7:24pm
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Nine thousand miles separate Veronica Karanja from her mother’s farm in Kenya and where she now farms in Kent.
Karanja’s expertise – and her vegetables that are culturally significant in Kenya – are helping transform a food desert just south of Seattle by supplying freshly picked produce at the seasonal East Hill Farmers Market.
“This makes me feel so good,” she said a few days before the market opened in mid-June. “I’m doing the work I am supposed to do.”
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