The grounds of care homes and hospitals could be used to grow fruit and vegetables to help reduce the amount of produce transported from miles away.

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Chef Tyler Brown is so serious about his upscale, sustainable Southern fare that the hotel recently bought a 245-acre farm to raise heritage cattle and grow its own vegetables and fruit.

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The Coplow Street Community Garden in Ladywood, Birmingham, has 26 plots where members of the 500-household community can grow fruit and vegetables.

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The co-operative is part of a growing urban agricultural movement in London, where demand for allotments -- plots of land that individuals can rent to grow fruit and vegetables -- far outstrips supply.

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It calls for local authorities, schools and community groups to plant fruit trees in schools and community settings so children, families and the wider community can learn how to grow, harvest, and enjoy their own local seasonal fruit.

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The influence of this force will grow greater and bear richer fruit with the coming years.

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Given year-round water, Sicilians could grow early fruit and vegetables.

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Such greenhouses could be used to grow fruit, vegetables and flowers cheaply.

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That is where the newest varieties of apples, pears, stone fruit and table grapes grow in months that are winter in the northern hemisphere.

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