All the work put in on the allotment has really paid off this year with good crops of most of the things sowed/planted. There have been a few disappointments but no out right failures and so many meals have been had to date that I've already easily recouped all my investment several times over. This years spuds for example are the best haul I've had and with any luck will see us through several months. There's something real about growing or foraging your food, it reconnects you to something buried deep inside, something primal, something human and something we are increasing being discouraged from in favour of rampant consumerism to fill our needs. A few years back research undertaken in primary schools showed that many children couldn't identify vegetables nor did did they know where their food came from, an example being children who didn't know chips were made of potato nor that potato grew underground. How fucked up is that? really!
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