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BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

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Is Urban Horticulture Helping the Environment Crisis?

i often think what a lot of the plants we're growing you would not find in a peat land. Yet, when i think that's one of the things, isn't it about being able to get thissist of this system going as well within our gardens? Ye anna: What role can urban horticulture play in helping the wider environment crisis that we're in at the moment? I think it's critical. We've lost about a third of all our agricultural soils over the last forty years to pollution and degradation. If we use traditional agricultural methods, big field agriculture,  we need to then give that time, that land time to rest and to recover. And

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