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Homeless in Miami Find New Outlet Working on Organic Farm

Homeless in Miami Find New Outlet Working on Organic Farm
Homeless people have allowed an innovative program to lift them off the streets and place them in a community coop farm growing organic fruits and vegetables.

As part of an innovative effort to tackle Miami's problem with homelessness, 400 residents have traded the downtown streets for a live-in community farm project in south Florida that grows produce for an upscale restaurant.

Verde Gardens, a $17.2 million, 145-unit complex built for Miami's formerly homeless, boasts a 22-acre organic farm that gives many of the residente their first steady job in years.

(READ the story w/ photos from Reuters)

Below if a short film about Verde Gardens

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