INSPIRED by TV food personalities such as Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Jamie Oliver, grow-your-own fever is spreading far and wide. And it is not the typical retirees who are hoisting hoe and shovel to toil the soil, but young urbanites.
The trend of “vegetable activism” is driven not just by the economics of growing your own edibles, but also the desire to eat locally grown food and hooking up with like-minded people. But availability of land for planting is an issue in most urban areas.
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