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A Garden in my Apartment
Britta Riley has removed all the excuses not to garden. The fact is you can grow your own food whether you are locked up in a damp basement or live in a high rise building (Damp basements are great for growing mushrooms). In this video Britta Riley shows how through open source comunications and with an inventive spirit one can grow plants inside windows. By participating at http://our.windowfarms.org/ we can expand upon these innovations and contribute toward solving the massive task of future food security.
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