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Urban gardening and connecting to nature

June 9, 2009 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

There are all sorts of reasons to farm food in the cities–reduction of the heat island effect, local food production, keeping storm water out of the waterways. But something happened to me the other day as a result of growing vegetables in my new garden plot that I wasn’t counting on. It’s been a dark […]

Filed Under: Environment, No Impact Man Tagged With: community gardening, local food, urban agriculture

Environmental conundrum

May 11, 2009 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

You may remember that we got a community garden plot of our own this year. The rub was that the person who had the plot before us had allowed a young tree to take root in it (you aren’t supposed to let trees grow in the garden), which made it unusable for growing vegetables. The […]

Filed Under: Environment, No Impact Man Tagged With: community gardening, environmentalism, trees, urban agriculture

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