Backyard Revolution – The Canberra Times, Australia

Concrete Jungle – The jilted generations are turning the mean streets green

By Jake Lynch
Canberra Times, Oct 22, 2008
(Australian journalist looks at North American urban agriculture and reports for an Australian readership.)

As my first American winter gave way to my first spring, I saw veggie patches sprouting up all over the place – in backyards, but also on the strip in front of houses, and in planter boxes on concrete pathways. The local school built a garden out front where people were free to take whatever grew there. The proliferation reminded me of some poorer cities in Asia where people grew food for survival.

But in the Seattle suburb of Queen Anne, there are BMWs and European hybrids in the driveways. The demographic is similar to Mosman, and there is plenty of disposable income to spend on organics.

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