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Challenges of implementing urban horticulture: a growing public ...

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Urban <strong>horticulture</strong>: (1.)• Practice <strong>of</strong> <strong>growing</strong> produce for human consumptionin <strong>urban</strong> areas• Includes allotments, community <strong>growing</strong> schemes etc.• Global increase in popularity• Highly beneficial(1.)Saumel, I., Kotsyuk, I., Holscher, M., Lenkereit, C., Weber, F., Kowarik, I. (2012) How healthy is <strong>urban</strong> <strong>horticulture</strong> in high traffic areas? Trace metal concentrations in vegetable crops from plantings withininner city neighbourhoods in Berlin, Germany. Environmental Pollution; 165: 124-132.

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