URBAN TRANSFORMATION NETWORK - Don't shoot! I be picking cotton garden! How much is this bullshit anti-violence garden costing taxpayers! You can bet the farm this is grant money being skimmed....

Wearing T-shirts that proclaimed, “Don’t shoot. I’m gardening,” kids from an East Garfield Park neighborhood plagued by gang violence on Thursday presented Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Congressman Danny Davis with baskets of vegetables they had grown in their own urban garden.

It was a showcase for the Urban Transformation Network, a group of South and West side churches that has forged a partnership with the city and USDA National Resources Conservation Services to turn vacant lots once strewn with garbage into productive vegetable gardens.

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