Eco City Farms are becoming more popular in cities and towns around the United States.

Eco City Farms in Edmonston,Maryland, is located near shopping centers, car repair shops and homes. The neighborhood is a workingclass community. People do not have very much money, and they have limited access to fresh food in markets.

Over the past two years, the farm has attracted volunteers from the community like Marcy Clark. She schools her four children at home. On a recent day she brought them to Eco City Farms for a lesson. Her son Alston Clark thinks his experience is very valuable. "I like coming out here," he says, "You know, you connect with the earth, where your food comes from. You appreciate the food a little bit more."

Margaret Morgan started Eco City Farms. She thinks of it as a place where people can learn to live healthier lives. "Growing food in a community brings people together," she continues, "Every piece of what we do here is a demonstration to show people everything about how to have an ecofriendly community." she says. From the Eco City Farms people come to know that they are not only growing food and raising chickens and bees, but improving the soil with compost made from food waste.

Eco City Farms is an experimental operation. The farm gets its power not from the local electricity networks, but from the sun with solar panels. In winter, the green houses use a geothermal system.

Vegetables can be grown all year. So once a week, all winter long, neighbors like Chris Moss and her three children bike to the farm to pick up a share of the harvest.

"I like eating the vegetables," says fiveyearold Owen Moss.

1. Who started Eco City Farms?
2. Does she think people can learn to live better there?
3. Where does the farm get it's electricity?
4. How long is the growing season at the farm?
5. Which neighbor's go weekly in winter?
6. How do they get there?
7. Does Owen like veggies?
8. What city is the farm in?
9. Is that in Vermont?
10. Where?
11. What's it near?
12. What kind of place is it?
13. Do people have much money in the community?
14. Do they attract volunteers?
15. Like who?
16. Does she have kids?
17. How many?
18. Do they attend public school?
19. Where do they get their education?
20. What's Marcy's son's name?

Provide a numbered list of answers.
1. Margaret Morgan
2. yes
3. from the sun
4. all year
5. Chris Moss and her three children
6. bicycling
7. Yres
8. Edmonston
9. No
10. Maryland
11. shopping centers, car repair shops and homes.
12. a place where people can learn to live healthier lives
13. no
14. yes
15. Marcy Clark
16. yes
17. four
18. no
19. at home
20. Alston Clark