Landshare initiative.

[peter]

See http://landshare.channel4.com/ for Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's venture to get more land available for people to grow their veg on.

I quote the website below.

What is Landshare?
With allotment waiting lists massively over-subscribed and people right across the country keener than ever to grow their own fruit and veg, the aim for Landshare is to become a UK wide initiative to make British land more productive and fresh local produce more accessible to all.

Sign up to make sure you’re amongst the first to have the opportunity to be involved in this exciting initiative that is planned to be launched around March/ April 2009.

[Primrose]

I think this is an excellent initiative, and like the National Trust's allotment initiative I think it reflects a growing desire of an increasing number of people to grow their own vegetables. I think the Credit Crunch has been a huge influence in this but anything which decreases our dependence on imported food can only be a good thing. How effective it will be I don't know. It will probably only work in areas where's there's a big match between spare land and people wanting to grow and by the very nature of big communities, there often isn't sufficient growing space to go round. I can't see people travelling miles to have an allotment, It would be too time consuming.