Property News · April 13, 2016

No backyard, no problem: how to grow your own vegetables in an apartment


We are increasingly disconnected from the food we eat. What better way to fix that than to grow your own stash? Madeleine Somerville explains howFor the five years I spent as a youth worker, I spent my days playing pool and handing out condoms, functioning as an advocate and running a gardening program called Grow. Grow was designed to reconnect kids with the process of planting, growing and harvesting organic fruits and vegetables. While bribing teenage boys to care about organic gardening was challenging, it also had unique rewards. I witnessed a 17-year-old kid discover how broccoli grows and watched as he idly picked snap peas right off the vine and declared with shock that they actually tasted good. These discoveries underlined for me how disconnected many of us have become from our food. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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