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Changing Places - Urban Farms in London

Geoff Riley

26th October 2017

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This is superb for the changing places topic. The FT visits a cluster of urban farmers whose ingenuity, vision and drive might well be at the cutting edge of a farming revolution.

City agriculturalists are harnessing technologies such as LED bulbs, 3D printers and data analysis to speed up growth and create farms virtually anywhere!

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

@tutor2uGeoff

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