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Isobel Violet Hume, PhD Candidate , University of Adelaide

Fennel looking a bit feeble? Growing enough veggies to feed yourself depends on these 3 things

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Farming inside city boundaries is on the rise as countries become more urbanised and people seek to connect with the source of their food and improve their sustainability.

But despite the productivity potential of home food gardens and the like, they are rarely analysed as serious farming systems. There’s little data, for example, on how much can be grown on an average suburban property.

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