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A movement is underway to ample some of Baltimore's 14,000 alone lots with annual farms, area association could abound zinnias and toad lilies and hyacinths to advertise to bounded florists or allure the accessible to appear aces their own bouquets.

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The city's spending console agreed Wednesday to accord $5,000 for a consultant's abstraction of the abeyant for leasing alone lots to annual farmers as an bulge of the farm-to-table push.

Ellen Frost, who owns Bounded Color Flowers in Charles Village, said she's attractive for adjacent growers to ample her orders and advice compress the industry's ecology brand by application blooms that accept been advised with beneath chemicals and catholic beneath miles.

"Flowers are a acceptable advantage for bodies who are absorbed in agronomics but appetite to try commodity altered or accept a alcove that sets them afar from aliment growers," Frost said. "For us, it's agitative as a applicable ambitious advantage for farmers, and to annihilate blight."

Flowers can be a acceptable use for alone lots that may accommodate pollutants from a above activity and may not be acceptable for growing food, advocates say. And some beginning plants can draw abuse out of the soil, allowance to absolve it for after use, said Mary Hendrickson, an abettor assistant of rural folklore at the University of Missouri.

Lloyd Fox, Baltimore Sun

Ellen Frost, who owns Bounded Color Flowers in Charles Village, said she's attractive for added bounded growers to ample her orders.

Ellen Frost, who owns Bounded Color Flowers in Charles Village, said she's attractive for added bounded growers to ample her orders. (Lloyd Fox, Baltimore Sun)

"Flowers accomplish added money per acre than vegetable production," Hendrickson added. "I see this as a abundant use of amplitude in Baltimore." She said St. Louis, Detroit and Minneapolis are amid cities area alone spaces are actuality angry into annual farms.

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While some alone acreage is targeted for redevelopment as apartment or for bartering use, the burghal started a advance for added association area in 2011, said Jenny Guillaume, coordinator of the city's Growing Green Initiative. The abstraction is to advance austere neighborhoods, accord families admission to added benign aliment options and advice unemployed association acquire money, she said. About a dozen bake-apple and vegetable farms are operating in Baltimore.

Luke Broadwater

Mayor's appointment against Burghal Council bill in 2011; now supports Welch's legislation

Mayor's appointment against Burghal Council bill in 2011; now supports Welch's legislation (Luke Broadwater)

Now, Guillaume said, the burghal wants to amount out whether bazaar armament are able abundant to abutment annual farms, which could additionally aftermath petals for perfumes, affable and capital oils. Another advantage could be to acquiesce bodies to stop by and aces their own bunches, the way some orchards advertise best apples.

"More and added bodies are absorbed in application added bounded products, and that has encouraged annual farming," Guillaume said.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said she's aflame by the possibilities, based on letters from added cities. Chicago, she said, has a affairs "where they advise bodies how to breed flowers to actualize a fragrance. They created two or three perfumes that are actual Chicago. I feel like Baltimore smells bigger than Chicago, and I would adulation for us to do that."

The Board of Estimates accustomed a $10,000 arrangement with Kristin Dawson, a above burghal action analyst who runs a consulting close that specializes in burghal agriculture. The close provides operations and activity administration abutment to a array of businesses, Dawson said later. Half of the money for the abstraction will appear from an Abell Foundation grant.

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The adviser is answerable with investigating bounded accumulation and demand, establishing a alive accumulation of bounded stakeholders, charting lot availability, researching how to action flowers into articles and anecdotic industry best practices, according to advice presented to the Board of Estimates.

Guillaume said the adviser is accepted to address aback to the burghal by aboriginal March. The abstraction to analyze annual agronomics came, in part, from an access in a burghal challenge to adduce uses for alone property. Walker Marsh, who works as a acreage administrator for Baltimore's Real Aliment Farm, was a champ of the Growing Green Design Competition for his plan to actualize such a acreage on a city-owned lot in the Broadway East neighborhood. Marsh, who won about $64,000 in the burghal contest, will charter the half-acre amplitude from the city.

He said he hopes the amplitude at North Gay and North Washington streets will eventually affection benches for association gatherings, a rain garden, composting, a accumulator afford and annual beds blooming with marigolds and tulips and snapdragons.

"It is added than flowers for me," Marsh said of his affection for growing. "Once I was into it, I begin I could calm myself. You accept to accept backbone and be gentle, all the things that appear with agronomics and gardening."

Marsh said he wants to advertise bouquets at the site, accommodate arrange for weddings and appropriate occasions, broad his flowers to bounded florists and accomplice with farmers' bazaar vendors.

Baltimore has at atomic one annual farm. Maya Kosok, coordinator for the Acreage Alliance of Baltimore City, started Hillen Homestead abreast Clifton Park in Northeast Baltimore about 21/2 years ago. The city's accommodation to analyze annual farms on a beyond calibration alone makes sense, she said.

"Sustainable agronomics and burghal agronomics accept been accepting drive in the aftermost decade or two, and I accept absolutely been aggressive by a lot of abundant examples in Baltimore and elsewhere," Kosok said.

Kosok said she will accomplish about $10,000 this year on her annual farm. Most of the sales are to Frost's Bounded Color Flowers, she said.

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Frost, who buys all her flowers aural a 100-mile ambit of Baltimore, opened her annual boutique in 2008. This year, she's fabricated arrange for 85 weddings and dozens of appropriate events, she said.

She afresh started convening a baby accumulation of abeyant annual farmers to allocution about techniques, allotment belief and network.

"We started to accept for us to accept a acceptable business model, we bare to accept added annual farms in our basin and added afterpiece to home," she said.

Kosok said what she doesn't sell, she gives away, bottomward off bouquets to neighbors and handing them out to bodies walking by.

"For me, burghal agronomics is partly about growing things and bearing things," she said. "But it's partly about architecture association and application alone spaces and allotment bodies to feel invested in their neighborhood."

Baltimore Sun anchorman Luke Broadwater contributed to this article.

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