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Article: PERSPECTIVE: Rhyme and reason grow in our jungle; When Balsall Heath residents got together to grow food in their back yards, pears and plums were not the only fruit of their labours. Tonight they will be harvesting the poems, stories and songs that have also been cultivated Jo Ind reports.(Comment)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- September 8, 2005
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Byline: Jo Ind
When Chris Duggan set up an organisation to encourage people to grow their own fruit and vegetables in Balsall Heath, he had not envisaged poetry sprouting from the soil.
His aim in founding Balsall Heath Jungle six years ago was to create an environment fit for children to grow up in which for him meant more trees, more plants and less exhaust fumes.
"I had no desire to go and build a little house on the prairie or in a national park," he says. "I wanted to dig and delve in the place that was already my home, but not in isolation, I ...