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Sweden's urban garden plots

John Suavecito

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This is a program that helps working class urban people improve their health, not just through the food, but through connection with others and with nature. I think that their government actually wants people to be healthy and happy. Beautiful photography too. Check it out:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/well/sweden-urban-gardens.html?unlocked_article_code=1.U08.P_wR.XvxE59LKIrxH&smid=url-share

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Nancy Reading

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So these are a bit like British allotment gardens, but the Swedes actually own the plots and can have tiny houses on them

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My projects on Skye: The tree field, Growing and landracing, perennial polycultures, "Don't dream it - be it! "

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In Russia, they have dachas, where average people can have a house in the country to relax and grow food in a calm, rural area. It's a vacation place for people who aren't rich.
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Honeybee Tales by Leigh Tate

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