Urban Agriculture store opens in Washington

The Farm Team: Urban Sustainable Opens in Adams Morgan

By Matt Bevilacqua
Washington City Paper
Nov. 2, 2010

Excerpt:

Occupying a small white storefront on 18th Street and Columbia Road NW, the agricultural supply store boasting several shelves full of seeds, organic nutrients, and other products for home-growing opened its doors last Wednesday.

Manager and cofounder Matt Doherty said he wants his store to not only provide the materials needed to grow healthier food than what’s available at Safeway a few doors down, but also to engage the city and spread knowledge about how individuals can lead more sustainable lifestyles.

“There is such a disconnection right now regarding our food supply,” he said, “from the grocery store to the fast-food restaurant.”

Doherty said that his business has dedicated resources to several community gardens in the neighborhood. He also said he’s been in touch with a professor at American University who teaches a class on “food deserts”–residential areas, usually poor, without access to a nearby grocery store. Together they plan on installing a self-sufficient community garden somewhere east of the Anacostia river.

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