Eat your brownfields greens

in The Sun this week. "The City That Breeds," a blog devoted to "the dumber side of Baltimore," linked to it under this inspired headline:

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"Look, people, I’m no fascist, hippy-killing, factory-farm loving capitalist, but I’ve seen the quasi-legal things Baltimoreans routinely throw on the ground," the blogger writes. "That stuff gets into the ground and stays there. Don’t we have

in the city that corresponds roughly to the size of the city?"

Lest you think my foraging article painted too quaint a picture of Baltimore, please note that it describes a forager in Herring Run Park steering clear of anything growing close to the water because of frequent sewer leaks. And I noted that certain city parks are "better known as murder-victim dumping grounds than locavore playgrounds."