Growing Station‘s snazzy kitchen sink planter made the cover of the EPA’s fascinating report on the environmental challenges of growing food on urban brownfields:
Just as conventional agriculture can pose risks to farmers, neighbors, and the environment, each urban agriculture scenario poses its own risks. The convened experts developed a list of ideas and a process for addressing these risks so that growers can be aware they have selected a brownfield and brownfields can be redeveloped safely and efficiently into agriculture projects. They found that the underlying question in this strategy becomes: How clean is clean?
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