Participants in an urban-permaculture workshop in Istanbul surveyed a small plot of land while learning what food-growing techniques might work best there. On a damp and dreary afternoon, about 15 people are gathered on a windswept hill overlooking the Bosphorus, standing in a tiny patch of green

surrounded by Istanbul’s endless urban sprawl. They intently examine a muddy mound of dirt, covered with cardboard and weeds–the inauspicious-looking start to what participants hope will be a gardening revolution in Turkey….

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Exploring Permaculture in the Big City