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Brussels is growing fruit and vegetables on the roofs of supermarket

euronews.green: “Over 60 species of plants are being cultivated on the rooftop garden of a Brussels supermarket, as part of a project financed by the European Union. The Lagum Project is experimenting with the idea of an urban garden and wants to determine whether they are sustainable or not. Since March, more than 2 tonnes of fruit and vegetables have been harvested. “We look into the agronomic part of the research, but also we look about the multi-functionality of these kinds of projects. So there is production, yes, but there is also training, and awareness, and cohesion of the social neighbourhood,” Francisco Davila, a researcher at the agroecology lab of Vrije Universiteit, told Euronews…”

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