Rail-side gardening blossoms during pandemic


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Agamemnon Otero, the founder of Energy Garden, tending to a bee hive in a section of the garden on the platform at Brondesbury Park Overground train station in London. ‘Energy Garden is really about building resilience in communities. It’s about how we directly address the climate change issue that everybody feels they are powerless to do,’ he says. — AFP

A busy commuter train station is an unlikely place to find a haven for flowers, bees and hedgehogs.

But a decade-old project in London bringing an eco-friendly combination of gardening, horticulture and so-called rewilding to the urban jungle is bearing fruit during the pandemic.

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