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Rebuilding the urban garden

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by Carlisle Rice   
Saturday, January 03, 2009
Revival of urban gardening Austin company GoFarm! offers the know-how for homeowners to grow healthy, delicious produce in their own yard.

A frantic pace is the defining factor in many people’s lives in the city, and because of this, it can be difficult for health-conscious individuals to always make safe and healthy nutrition choices.  Few people have time to scan the labels of every food product they use to ensure that the ingredients are natural, and with Monsanto terminator seeds being marketed to farmers around the world, untested genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) entering the food supply on a regular basis, and in light of publicized food contamination scares in the last years, it is now clear that the safety of our food is in question.