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A community-garden directory

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A community-garden directory

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A community-garden directory

Volunteers at Green Streets Network in Brighton have recently launched a garden directory that lists the courtyards and rooftops most likely to (1) ________ urban wildlife. They created the catalogue to make sense of the ever-increasing number of growing spaces that are visible across modern cities. They believe it will help gardeners, and residents with an interest, to compare nearby sites and keep (2) ________ on the most productive ones as volunteers register them. The catalogue ranks the sustainability of gardens and allotments according to three (3) ________: soil condition, ready access to water and their capacity to (4) ________ plants suited to local food projects. It also identifies secluded corners where rare species might (5) ________. It suggests that among hundreds of locations, only a few sites are (6) ________ productive. The database carefully records sustainability (7) ________ and the exact (8) ________ of every garden it covers.