Posted on May 3, 2024

Meet the farmer growing vegetables for her food-desert community

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Ivy Walls is planting seeds of change for her community — literally! She opens up about working on her five-acre farm called Ivy Leaf Farms to help provide food for her food-desert community in Texas that had just one grocery store.

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Houston

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