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The City's Largest Orchard To Be Planted At Former Saint Clair Village Site

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Sarah Baxendell/ Hilltop Urban Farm

PITTSBURGH (Newsradio 1020 KDKA) - What was once the Saint Clair Village housing project will become the city's largest orchard this weekend.

Sarah Baxendell tells KDKA Radio's Lynne Hayes-Freeland, volunteers will plant 200 fruit and nut trees on Saturday at Hilltop Urban Farm.


"We are establishing our production orchard which will be food that is sold to the neighborhood and sold wholesale through the City of Pittsburgh," said Baxendell. 

 The 23-acre plot is the largest urban farm in the country.

 The nonprofit is looking to combat food insecurity in the southern hilltop neighborhoods, and eventually wants to support themselves by selling their harvest to wholesalers and at farmers' markets.  

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