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Cultivating community wellness

Cultivating community wellness

A growing movement of urban farmers and activists are planting seeds of change in their South Los Angeles community. What happens next depends on a disease that does not discriminate and a diet that does.

By Hannah Drake Litman, Juuso Määttänen, Sheridan Hunter, and Alyssa ValdezAugust 08, 2024 at 3:04PM PDT

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