Vermont shipping container farm grows vegetables for immigrant communities

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Among a collection of farm fields in Burlington, Vermont, is a 40-foot-long shipping container in a parking lot. It’s crimson red, with a quilt-like mural of vegetables on its side. This is Village Hydroponics. The organization grows and shares food, for free, with people displaced from their home countries. Vermont Public’s Elodie Reed reports.

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