Berries abound at the Roots garden in Overtown.
Roots board members speak to Phil Bacon, vice president of
Community and Regional Development for the Collins Center
for Public Policy.
Roots has launched an urban farmer's market in March,
which produces more produces for inner city residents.
The new urban market allows people receiving Food
Stamps to get a 2 for 1 deal on produce.
The new market is open on Wednesday afternoons
between 1 and 4 p.m.
The Roots market features the following partners:
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Michael's Genuine,
Wholesome Wave Foundation and Human Services Coalition
of Miami-Dade.
Roots In The City landscaped one of the main entrances into Overtown.
A view of the main botanical garden visible from I-395 to Miami Beach.
Volunteers and Roots In The City trainees work in the vegetable garden.
A Roots agricultural trainee works on a patch of collard greens.
A look at the vegetable garden across the street from the historic
Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Miami's Overtown neighborhood.
Community volunteers work in the vegetable garden.
Roots In The City sells its fresh produce.
Students in the Roots In The City Landscape and Horticultural Training Institute
for inner-city residents show off their diplomas.
Anthropologists from the University of Florida visit Marvin Dunn's
Rosewood study site in northern Florida. Dunn's work extends to
other parts of Florida and the Caribbean.
The Rosewood massacre was a violent, racially motivated incident that
took place in January 1923 in rural Levy County, Fla. Six blacks and two whites were killed.
Later Roosewood was
later abandoned and destroyed during a race riot.
Rosewood is one of the sites Dunn studied as part of his work
researching the history of racial violence in Florida.
Roots In The City, Inc.
Nonprofit Beautification Project
1600 NW 3rd Ave., Bldg D
Miami, FL 33136
Email: rootsinthecity@gmail.com
