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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-1600s

Publisher:  Resilience
Date Written:  06/01/2016
Year Published:  2016  
Resource Type:  Article

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.

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