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Traditional skills help urban gardens bloom

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November 29, 2023

Social enterprise Urban Mali employs migrant farmers to tend home gardens in Bengaluru. The farmers’ indigenous skill sets are a gift to city-dwellers who lack a green thumb, and now enjoy the benefits of an organic garden.

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