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In 1995, former Proctor & Gamble marketing executive Will Allen was helping neighborhood kids with a gardening project when he decided that introducing farming to America’s inner cities could reap real public health benefits. The farming methods and educational programs he subsequently developed are now the hallmark of Growing Power, the nonprofit organization Allen co-founded and directs.

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Philippines News Agency
September 1, 2009
LEGAZPI CITY

The Aquinas University of Legazpi (AUL) has implemented a project dubbed “Urban Agriculture through the High-Value Commercial Crops Techno-Demo Farm” within its expansive campus here.

The project features 60-square-meter greenhouse where vegetables highly sensitive to rain and changes in temperature like broccoli, lettuce, cauliflower and honeydew melon are being propagated.

Gardens for more hardy vegetables such as squash, eggplant and watermelon were also established in an open area of 1,000 square meters whose perimeters were planted to rootcrops like ubi and sweet potato.

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The Road House: The home-grown food gurus

Urban agriculture activists

BY JORDAN NOVET
The Missourian
NOVEMBER 12, 2009

On a Monday evening, the scent of warm tomatoes permeates the kitchen of the Road House, a green-and-red building on St. Joseph Street. Bobby Johnson, Daniel Soetaert and Billy Polansky, half of the six housemates, are making and canning tomato paste with tomatoes they bought from Amish farmers. Johnson pushes one sliced tomato after another through a juicer. Polansky oversees two vats cooking the juice on a stove.

“This is not special,” Johnson says. “This is what people did for thousands of years.”

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