News stories by Laura Silver* - IPS/IFEJ

  1. ENVIRONMENT: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

    - Inter Press Service

    A story from Inter Press Service, an international news agency

    Brooklyn's historic Fort Greene Park lures locals each Saturday with a year-round vegetable and produce market. But it's not just a place for consumption. Locals come bearing plastic containers and buckets filled with squash skins, used tea bags and expired asparagus. It’s all fodder for compost.

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