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Urban Harvest

Confronting climate change and poverty, a new crop of city farmers comes of age in Africa. Table of Contents | Digital Edition
Guardian Environmental Network
By Ariane Lotti
Knee-High by the Fourth of July
community blog | (2) Comments
August 12, 2008: Back when Scott Marpe's grandfather grew corn, farmers boasted knee-high corn by the 4th of July, and an acre of land in Iowa yielded about 40 bushels of corn. Today, Scott can produce close to 200 bushels on that same acre... read more >
Ariane Lotti