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One of the Urban Environmental Agenda's first endeavors has taken a life of its own in Roxbury's Dudley Street neighborhood. Only a year after EPA, City Year and the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative turned their attention to revitalizing a one-acre vacant lot on the corner of Langdon and George streets, the property has now been taken over by the Food Project for use this summer as a vegetable and fruit garden. Food from the garden will be used to supply homeless shelters, and will also be sold in a farmer's market that will open up in the Dudley Street neighborhood this year. In addition, the Magazine Street lot, another nearby lot that EPA worked with City Year to prepare, was used by residents this past summer for vegetable gardens. After years of neglect, not one section of the former vacant lot went unattended once it had been transformed into a garden. Greenleaf Composting, the firm that supplied compost for the Langdon Street Lot, is now interested in providing clean compost to additional vacant lots in the Dudley Street Area. The company currently has a grant to supply compost to lots in the Dudley area and wants to work with the Urban Environmental Agenda in Roxbury on a larger organic composting project, employing local residents in the composting operation.