Her life's work was fighting infections. Now she's fighting Sunnyside's food crisis as an urban farmer.

Ivy Lawrence-Walls took a 'leap of purpose' when she left the medical field to grow...

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"Farmers typically don't have an Instagram or are out at brunch and different foundational events," he said."So just seeing out here in the mud and then seeing the next day out at brunch. We're like modern day farmers, this is the new era that can be done." "Houston is kind of a newcomer to the urban farming movement. There’s not too many farms within the beltway," he said while looking at a map."There’s some smaller ones that are super urban."along Sunnyside's Scott Street to combat childhood obesity and to educate and mobilize the community to provide them with healthier diets.

Soil remediation and combating Houston's unpredictable climate are some of the things she's had to learn.

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