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Appetite for Life

“We want to make growing food easy for people in the city, even if it’s just a carrot or some tomatoes,” explains Leonor Babo, one part of urban gardening business, Noocity Urban Ecology (pronounced “new-city”). They flat-pack self-watering gardens (wicking beds) out of Porto in Portugal, which can be shipped all over Europe by post.

These urban garden boxes

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