Urban spelunking: Behind the scenes at The Domes
“ …We walked back behind the gate and Kehoe scaled a ladder above the pit and cut down a handful of bananas which he gave to me to try and to bring home to share with my family.
They were small, but...

Urban spelunking: Behind the scenes at The Domes

…We walked back behind the gate and Kehoe scaled a ladder above the pit and cut down a handful of bananas which he gave to me to try and to bring home to share with my family.

They were small, but sweet and tasty. The latter is not true of all the fruit growing in the Domes, however. The plants grown in the Domes are not hybrids created for human consumption, said Folaron.

“It isn’t the kind of fruit that you find at Pick ‘N Save. It’s not grown to eaten; to really be something that American palates are used to,” she said. “So we may think, 'Oh there’s so much membrane in this.’ Because it’s a natural environment, too, we might just open up a grapefruit and find an insect in it…”

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