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we must see you move in just the weeds from the soil so when we plant stuff yeah the

weeds will not come through and now. It's early February and in a three-acre communal garden in the West Midlands,

preparations for another growing season have begun.

It will look very nice when it's done like this. The garden at

Sandwell and the veg bags it produces are part of a public health mission, one of

the most influential in Britain, to change and save lives.

So far, it's got local residents involved in growing, in cooking, and eating fresh food.

We began a whole process of transforming the site

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