Harvesting Hope: The Urban Farms Helping Save a City’s Aging Sewer System

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 02:50:36 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://reasonstobecheerful.world/urban-farms-help-save-st-louis-aging-sewer-system/>

"In late August, Donna Washington picked a couple pawpaws from the half dozen
trees growing in the orchard down the street from her home in north St. Louis,
Missouri.

The trees were planted half a decade ago, when Jubilee Community Church
expanded a small garden in the adjacent 1.5 acre lot into an urban farm,
complete with rows of vegetables, a border of native plants and an orchard.

This was the first year the pawpaw trees produced, giving Washington her first
chance to try the green-skinned, yellow-fleshed fruit native to North America.
Washington, a regular volunteer at the garden, was hooked."

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               *** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net               Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/            Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/               Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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