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Spring Gillard

Spring Gillard is a sustainability consultant and author of Diary of a Compost Hotline Operator, Edible Essays on City Farming (New Society, 2003). She blogs at www.compostdiaries.com/.

Stories by Spring Gillard

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Battle for the Banana

Behind the peel, a torrid history of trade wars and bullish fruit magnates. Last of two.

By Spring Gillard, 29 Dec 2011


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Secrets of the Banana

Not the forbidden fruit, but equally sinister. Part one of my journey into the republic.

By Spring Gillard, 28 Dec 2011