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Philadelphia Weekly - November 2, 2010

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Temple seniors Alex McNeil (president of Project EDU) and Eric Trumbower (president of the Fox School's Entrepreneurial Student Association) noticed that there were unused gardens everywhere in North Philadelphia. They reached out to Yuan Huang, president of Temple Community Gardens, and together they founded Urban Roots. Their idea: Teach local kids about gardening and have them harvest all their produce and sell it to a farmer's market. "They keep track of their money, realize their expenses, and maybe in a few years, this can be a self-sustaining business," said McNeil.