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Rec center's rooftop garden provides 600 pounds of veggies, fruits per week

When the Edgewood Recreation Center opened last year in Northeast D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser said she wanted it to be a place to "play, learn ,and even grow fresh produce."

Now, with a rooftop community garden on top of the facility, providing fresh fruits and vegetables to the community has become a reality.

Since May the D.C. Department of Recreation has grown a garden on the rooftop of the rec center.

They have a range of produce as well as flowers that they give away to the public.

Read more at WJLA.

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