to reclaim land, promote community gardening, to expose inner city populace to a healthy diet, to reach across racial, ethnic, economic and age lines to create community and civil society. To address the urgent need in these times to reduce the carbon footprint of the food systems, to make an impact on the food system in Bridgeport that will result in improved health of the populace. To educate children on how to garden. To provide opportunities of recent immigrant groups a continuum of their agricultural heritage and to pass gardening and ethnic culinary skills to their next generations.. To help families economically with their food budgets.