SUSTAINABILITY: “Green solution just outside your door”

The Sydney Morning Herald
7 October 2008

THE English have their allotments; in Sydney we use the streets. In a variation on guerilla gardening, Sydneysiders are moving veggie plots from the backyard to the street verge, and converting formerly fallow public land into mini-market gardens.

“Environmentally, ethically and, from a community perspective, it’s a great thing to do,” says Eva Johnstone, a landscape architect, who with her husband, Bill, has been growing vegetables on their Marrickville street verge for the past two years…

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