To: the Cambridge City Council
Newark, New Jersey leases vacant lots to residents for $1 a year through its Adopt-a-Lot program, and Baltimore grants free, revocable licenses — neither sells the land. Brown County, Wisconsin has run community gardens through its Extension office since 1996: 13 gardens and 386 plots. We ask Middlesex County to let residents garden unused county land under a simple revocable license.
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