Salisbury’s newest community garden hopes to produce chemical free food

Folks will be seeing a new community garden popping up in Salisbury at the intersection of Parsons Road and Fitzwater Street.

It officially has planted its roots. 20 raised beds filled with top soil are just the first step to this project.

The hands behind the shovels, the organization called CATA, which in Spanish stands for The Farmworker Support Committee.

CATA's General Coordinator Jessica Culley tells 47 ABC, "We're a membership organization for migrant farm workers and low wage immigrant workers and we have offices and work in southern New Jersey, here in the Salisbury Delmarva area, and also have an office and membership in southeastern Pennsylvania."

The organization has a 10-year lease with the city to utilize this space.

CATA says this garden is important for the community to access chemical free food.

We are told many low-income areas tend to have expensive organic produce.

But beyond that, CATA hopes this can also be a way to plant new eating habits.

"It's also a space for teaching kids about where our food comes from and what's good for our bodies and we find in most a lot of low income communities in the states, that like diet related disease are high," Culley says.

The garden may seem scarce now, but in a few months, they will be seeing some vegetables, such as lettuce, spinach, and even garlic. Community members can expect some of those crops coming in before summer ends.

CATA says this community garden in Salisbury is their third one and they hope to continue to grow more to allow communities to access healthy, fresh, and organic food.