Homegrown City Farms:  Keepin’ It Urban

Originally posted in Carolina Farm Stewardship Association blog “The Sweet Potato,” September 18, 2012, By Lesley Lammers

Homegrown City Farm, new to the farm tour this year, is a 1/4 acre urban farm tucked away on a residential street of East Durham created by Durhamites Collier Reeves and Maryah Smith-Overman. “It’s definitely been a long time coming,” says Maryah. “My background is in fine woodworking and furniture, but I’ve always grown food for myself and been interested in plants, food quality and accessibility.  I really came into this through Collier who studied sustainable agriculture and worked on a bunch of farms.  We moved here together with the interest of farming in town.” Continue reading…