Source: AGWEB, 10/20/17

Agriculture has been practiced within the bounds of urban communities for centuries--the first recorded instance of urban garden plots were planted by inhabitants of the Aztec Empire as early as the 14th Century B.C., in the region of modern-day Mexico and Central America.  Kitchen gardens and fruit tree groves were sited within walled cities  in Europe during the Middle Ages. Such areas were often established by monasteries, to help feed the monks living within, and also a portion was often sold in local markets to supplement the monasteries’ incomes.

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