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Urban farming springs up on rooftops in hyper-crowded Hong Kong

A woman walks past vegetable boxes at City Farm, an organic farm set up on the rooftop of a tower block in Hong Kong. With most of the southern Chinese territory's seven million people living in tower blocks and land prices sky-high, unused roofs are some of the few places in the most heavily populated areas for budding vegetable gardeners

On the rooftop of a tower block above the hustle and bustle of teeming Hong Kong, dedicated growers tend to their organic crops in a vegetable garden. Against a backdrop of skyscrapers and jungle-clad hills, earth-filled boxes are spread out on the roof of the 14-storey building, where a wide…

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