Baltimore's City Hall vegetable garden

Photos courtesy of Angela Treadwell-Palmer

Baltimore City's Master Gardeners, whose program is threatened by proposed city budget cuts, turned out Thursday  to harvest the first of the spring crops in the City Hall vegetable garden -- 17 crates of fresh greens.

This is the second year for the garden, which is planted in the cement planters around Baltimore's War Memorial Plaza.

It produced more than a ton of food last year for Our Daily Bread, which feeds the city's poor and homeless.

The Master Gardeners volunteer their time to plant, weed and harvest the City Hall vegetable garden, but their wide-ranging programs are funded by the city.