click to enlarge Jeb Wallace-Broduer Abdoulaye Niane harvesting eggplant at Khelcom Farm At six feet, seven inches, Abdoulaye Niane towers over almost every crop he tends at his half-acre urban farm, located behind his family home in a quiet Berlin neighborhood just off Route 302. The sunflowers along the back fence of Khelcom Farm are a notable exception. "This is the first time I grew sunflowers," Niane, 49, said with a grin. "They are as tall as me." This year's growing season also marks the first time that the Senegalese native and former machinist has run his own farm and raised vegetables for sale there.

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