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-  * Kitchen gardens and local solutions: In both urban and rural areas, people have been found to develop interesting planting techniques. A source of vegetables, herbs, fruits and flowers, kitchen gardens are one of the most common, easily maintained and personal manifestation of our links with ecology. Often in the form of regular miniature gardens, people in highly dense urban realms resort to container gardening to grow their produce. In Indian kitchens, a mixture of left over egg shells and tea leaves is used to grow garlic and onions. Garlic has other advantages like keeping snails and fleas away. Fruit and vegetable peals are often added to tea leaves to create compost. Often waste plastic cans and bottles play the role of containers. As an approach, a kitchen gardener finds the shortest, simplest way between the earth, the hands and the mouth !((http://www.kitchengardeners.org/2005/10/what_is_a_kitch_1.html))
+  * Kitchen gardens and local solutions: As an approach, a kitchen gardener finds the shortest, simplest way between the earth, the hands and the mouth !((http://www.kitchengardeners.org/2005/10/what_is_a_kitch_1.html))In both urban and rural areas, people have been found to develop interesting planting techniques. A source of vegetables, herbs, fruits and flowers, kitchen gardens are one of the most common, easily maintained and personal manifestation of our links with ecology. Often in the form of regular miniature gardens, people in highly dense urban realms resort to container gardening to grow their produce. In Indian kitchens, a mixture of left over egg shells and tea leaves is used to grow garlic and onions. Garlic has other advantages like keeping snails and fleas away. Fruit and vegetable peals are often added to tea leaves to create compost. Often waste plastic cans and bottles play the role of containers.
   * City farms: In New york, numerous vacant plots have been converted into city farms where communities grow there own food. These range from apples to pears. Further, by using grafting techniques, fences can be made entirely out of such plants. In Melbourne, the city farms also play the role of community education centres, which is a brilliant way to introduce kids to aspects of food production. In Davis, California, through the allocation of areas for directing rain water into catchment basins, //swail areas// have been created which over the years have now transformed into productive fruit farms.