Green thumbs turn veggie patches into `edible gardens`
(WorldNews Environment)

The vegetable garden at Meilong Sancun where plants were placed in dozens of `square foot gardens` which some residents asked to take home and grow them on their balconies. Inset: Children trim the leaves of rice crops at the vegetable garden at the Knowledge and Innovation Community in an event held at the end of October last year. A one-time garbage disposal area at the Knowledge and Innovation Community in Yangpu District was the site of happy reapers last autumn after the strip of land between two housing complexes was turned into a 2,000 square-meter vegetable garden. `After my daughter was born, I wanted to do something to bring urban life closer to nature,` said Wei Min, an architect...