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Awesome Time-Lapse Film Turning a Park into a Veggie Garden (Video)
2:09 pm in communities, community gardens, food, peak oil, united kingdom by TreeHugger
Image credit: Transition Bath
When I wrote about a solar warehouse in Baltimore, I noted that one of its biggest advantages was how visible it was from a nearby highway. A similar point could be made for a new vegetable garden in Bath, England, that overlooks a busy and unpleasant junction that is regularly snarled up with stuck commuters. This beautiful time-lapse video shows how ordinary residents turned a park into a food-producing billboard. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
Photos: Mirko Ihrig / Olli Hirvonen
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