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"Kent "Kip" Curtis had a dream of self-sustainable microfarms in Mansfield.

Organizations like the North End Community Improvement Cooperative and local residents like Walter Bonham, Justin Ocheltree, Vincent Owens and Matt and Amanda Stanfield are helping make that dream come true.

"It's really been more successful than I could have imagined in many ways," said Curtis, an associate  professor of environmental history at The Ohio State University-Mansfield campus. "We have a really solid group of producers who have worked together for two years, six growing seasons" 

Written By Carl Hunnell, City Editor (Oct. 2020)

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"Walter Bonham, owner of The Food Lab, in Mansfield, was not always a farmer. There aren’t many farmers in Mansfield. It’s a city, and agriculture has not traditionally been one of the city’s industries.

But that could be changing. Bonham, along with nine other new farmers, spent 2019 learning how to manage microfarms, through training from Ohio State University. These farmers are getting ready to start their first full year of growing."

Written by Sarah Donaldson (Feb. 2020)

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"Four farms were opened to the public in Mansfield on Friday evening in the middle of an area considered to be a food desert.

The farms are members of the Richland Gro-Op Cooperative, and will occupy eight high-tunnel greenhouses that were built with federal grant dollars at the former Gorman-Rupp site off Bowman Street near the intersection with West Sixth Street"

Written by Zach Tuggle (Sept. 2019)