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The '''Bush Hills Community Garden and Urban Farm''' is a project of [[Bush Hills Connections]], a non-profit partner of the [[Bush Hills|Bush Hills Neighborhood Association]], to redevelop the 4-acre campus of the former [[Wilson Elementary School|Woodrow Wilson Elementary School]] at 1030 [[4th Terrace West]] as an urban farm which distributes free produce to the neighborhood, and as a community garden for use by residents.
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The project was led by Bush Hills neighborhood president [[Walladean Streeter]]. Through her efforts, Bush Hills Connections negotiated a 50-year lease for the school property, then successfully applied for rezoning from the [[Birmingham Zoning Advisory Committee]], and obtained certification from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Office of Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production.
 
The urban farm portion of the property, which began planting in [[2018]], is staffed by trained workers and select volunteers supervised by a full-time farm manager. Produce from the farm is distributed for free to neighborhood residents. Plots in the community garden are available to neighborhood residents for their own planting.
 
In [[2023]] Bush Hills Connections began working with [[Goodwyn, Mills & Cawood]] architects and [[B. L. Harbert Construction]] on plans to renovate the former school building. The cafeteria would be re-used as a teaching kitchen and the gymnasium as a community center with youth programs. Over the long term, the school's former classrooms could potentially be renovated as residential lofts.
 
==References==
* Banks, Richard (January 7, 2023) "[https://birminghamwatch.org/an-old-school-in-birminghams-bush-hills-is-now-an-urban-farm-residents-are-thinking-bigger/ An old school in Birmingham’s Bush Hills is now an urban farm. Residents are thinking bigger]." WBHM.org / ''[[BirminghamWatch]]''
 
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