Edible Oklahoma City

Getting Dirty in the City

• Photo by Josh McCullock

  For some people, getting your hands dirty means stacking the fork on your plate for the waiter to clear or even scrubbing the dirt off the carrots for your salad—but for others, like Elia Woods, it’s much more than that. As the Co-Founder and Farm Manager of CommonWealth Urban Farms in Oklahoma City, she is getting her hands dirty, literally and figuratively, by working to cultivate a model of urban farms that can eventually work all over the city.

• Photo by Josh McCullock

  Spring onions making their first appearance

• Photo by Josh McCullock

  Dark green, heirloom spinach

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  White turnips ready to be enjoyed.

• Photo by Josh McCullock

  Co-Founder and Farm Manager, Elia Woods, harvesting hardy, white turnips