Michelle Obama visits San Diego community farm

AP article

SAN DIEGO – Returning from Mexico, Michelle Obama made a brief stop Thursday in San Diego to visit a community garden farmed by international refugees that she called a model for building healthy communities across the nation and around the world.
Obama toured the New Roots Community Farm to promote her "Let's Move!" campaign against childhood obesity. The event kicked off a $1 billion project by The California Endowment to fund healthy living initiatives in 14 communities across the state, including the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego, where the community farm is located.

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Some 80 farmers from a dozen countries work at the 2.3-acre farm, a project of the International Rescue Committee that started in June 2009 on city-owned land. Many grow vegetables, like kale, that they grew in the native countries they left because of civil wars and other violence.

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The garden provides fresh produce to the refugees and their families. Some of the fruits and vegetables also are sold at a farmers market and to local restaurants, giving the refugees some income. About 90 percent of the farmers have been unable to find a job because they do not have the skills or do not speak English.
Millions of children in the United States live in what Obama called "food deserts," places where there is no easy access to grocery stores or farmers markets. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says about one-third of children in America are either overweight or obese.

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Michelle Obama is very inspiring. ;-)