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Fruit Walls: Urban Farming in the 1600s
Decker, Kris De
http://www.resilience.org/stories/2016-01-06/fruit-walls-urban-farming-in-the-1600sDate Written: 2016-01-06 Publisher: Resilience Year Published: 2016 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX18622 We are being told to eat local and seasonal food, either because other crops have been tranported over long distances, or because they are grown in energy-intensive greenhouses. But it wasn't always like that. From the sixteenth to the twentieth century, urban farmers grew Mediterranean fruits and vegetables as far north as England and the Netherlands, using only renewable energy. Subject Headings |