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In London, rail-side gardening blossoms during pandemic

Founder of Energy Garden, Agamemnon Otero, tends to a herb and vegetable section near the platform at Brondesbury Park Overground train station in north west London.

LONDON: A busy commuter train station is an unlikely place to find a haven for flowers, bees and hedgehogs.

But a decade-old project in London bringing an eco-friendly combination of gardening, horticulture and so-called rewilding to the urban jungle is bearing fruit during the pandemic.

Hiding in plain sight, 34 solar-powered sites created by the community-led project Energy Garden are dotted around the British capital, adjacent to train platforms used daily by hundreds of thousands of commuters before coronavirus hit.

With lockdowns now easing, the passengers are returning, and the project’s chief executive Agamemnon Otero…

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