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MAKING A BIGGER T ABLE:
GROWING POWER
O But he didn’t have much space. How could he
21 nce Will had good soil, he was ready to plant vegetables.
GROW ENOUGH FOOD on a small city plot ?
22 Will Allen looked around. He saw that he had all the space
from the soil under his feet to the top of the greenhouses.
23 He hung plant baskets from the ceiling. He grew greens in
buckets, greens in rows. He crowded shelves with pots of
spinach, chard, lettuce. He grew stacks of tiny salad sprouts
in boxes, hundreds of boxes.
24 Will added hoophouses to hold more boxes and more long
rows of vegetables. He added vats of water and fish to
his greenhouses. Fish wastewater grows the sprouts. The
sprouts clean the water for the fish.
FISH,WATER,SPROUTS WORK TOGETHER
like a three-part
FARM MACHINE.
25 He added goats, chickens,
turkeys, and bees to that
city farm he named
“Growing Power.”
crowded If you crowded a space with something, you filled it up
with no room left for anything else.
vats Vats are large tanks or tubs that can hold water or other liquids.
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