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  1. Fruit Walls: Urban Farming in the 1600s
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    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.
  2. How to Grow and Can it Book of Vegetables, Fruits, and Herbs
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
  3. Why bananas are a parable for our times
    Amost unnoticed, bananas are dying

    Resource Type: Article
    The corporations that control the banana industry have created a giant monoculture. Disease is now destroying the fruit, and because natural genetic diversity has been eliminated, there is no remedy.


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