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Going Home: Race and politics in Mount Healthy, an Ohio city in transition

COLUMBUS DISPATCH | Article: Erica Thompson | Photos: Sam Greene

One concerned resident, Mary Laymon, 55, said she and her husband, Greg York, 57, are trying to help the community by providing ministry and food on their property, Tikkun Farms.

MOUNT HEALTHY — It’s odd hearing people call my childhood neighborhood a food desert. I did not grow up well off in the Compton Groves community of townhomes and apartments in Mount Healthy, a city of roughly 6,700 in the Greater Cincinnati area.

But I wanted for nothing… see article

A city farm, created to help repair the world, sows seeds of hope and offers food to go.

THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER | Sarah Haselhorst, Photos: Cara Owsley

Hamilton County Solid Waste and Recycling for awarding us the “Save the Food” award!

HAMILTON COUNTY RECYCLING AND SOLID WASTE DISTRICT

Tikkun Farm is a non-profit with the mission of healing people, repairing community, and restoring creation. This mission is carried out in a number of ways – providing meals and cooking skills for the community, being a home for rescued farm animals, and creating compost to turn back into the land, just to name a few. It is for these reasons and more that they were named our 2020 Save the Food Award Winner.

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