C.W. Harris, co-founder of Intersection of Change in Baltimore, which includes Strength to Love II and arts, recovery, and housing programs.

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Ending Food Apartheid in Baltimore

by C.W. Harris 07-24-2025
On one side of the street is an asphalt company. But on the other is farmland full of fruits and vegetables.

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John Kidwell straddles a row of young collards while preparing a bed for new plantings at Strength to Love II Farm in the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood of Baltimore in 2023. / Shae McCoy
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I WAS BORN and raised here in Sandtown-Winchester in Baltimore. I’m 75. A lot of folks I grew up with left, but I felt the call to stay. We wanted to support citizens returning home from incarceration. We felt that teaching them how to farm would be a first step in the rehabilitation process. A returning citizen suggested we call our group Strength to Love II after a collection of Martin Luther King’s messages that we were reading.

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