Food after oil: how urban farmers are preparing us for a self-sufficient future

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Food after oil: how urban farmers are preparing us for a self-sufficient future
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Bristol is at the head of a food phenomenon that is helping residents better connect with their cities and each other

If you travel by train into Bristol from north of the city, there is a point two miles from the centre when you can catch sight of a tiny farmyard. Nestling at the bottom of a railway embankment between houses, builders yards and a car rental depot, it has sties, snoozing Gloucester Old Spot pigs, a paddock with caramel-coloured Dexter cattle grazing and vegetable plots in which you might see the farmer and her three young children at work.

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