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Return to bontonfarms.org Subscribe for the latest on sales, new releases, and more Check out the short updates and links below: -An exciting development is the donation of 18 acres of land east of the current Bonton Farms. Join us and get a special thank-you gift and invitations to special member events. Offering our readers free access to incisive coverage of local news, food and culture. Our Bonton Farms preserves are made in our new Preservatory, where members of our program are taught professional skills, such as how to source ingredients, testing and scaling recipes, packaging retail products, following food safety protocols, and managing vendor relationships. Then he did something even crazier. The pervasive challenges faced by residents of Southern Dallas are felt most acutely in the small neighborhood of Bonton, where half of the population lives below the poverty line. Bonton Farms radical effort to alleviate poverty in South Dallas has received exciting recognition over the course of 2015, including two recent awards given to Daron and the community members at the farm. The farm was also highlighted in the documentary "Food Matters" by the Richards Group and sponsored by Sub Zero and Wolf. Bonton Farms is an agricultural intervention to restore lives, create jobs, and ignite hope. Were cultivating a vibrant and sustainable urban farm that utilizes the most innovative urban gardening techniques. But, all that is changing thanks to a small urban farm. It's called the Green Mater Sandwich, the "maters" being thick slices of green tomato, fried to a jellied sweetness with a crunchy, pebbled cornmeal crust clinging just so. Worth Metroplex. You expect to see crime, drugs, and gang violence. What started out as a garden in a small lot has grown into two fully functioning farms and the Bonton Market. Bonton is located in one such food desert. Were so much more than an urban farm. And a few things have been happening in South Dallas, too. Find out how were working to be a source of hope and nourishment to this former food desert. Tag your #BontonFarms linktr.ee/bontonfarms Were changing the way we all think about community by connecting Bonton to Dallas and beyond. #friend .c5-header { max-width: none; }. 20K likes. According to the Bonton Farms website, 63% of its residents do not have access to personal transportation and the nearest grocery store is a 3-hour round-trip bus ride away. These stats weighed on my heart while I ate lunch in the beautiful new market. A few months back, I went with a friend to Bonton Farms, which is located in the community of Bonton in south Dallas. Originally, Bonton founder and executive director Daron Babcock envisioned a fresh market in the sleek, modern space at the dead-end of Bexar Street. 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