i have always been a big advocate for the grow foods not lawns movement. In Australia I lvoed how the European migrants grew all this food in their gardens -The Greeks grew tomatoes and grapses all over suburban backyeards, out of necesssity begin so poor when they arrived post war. In many Ausstralian backyards we have lemon trees and fruit trees and vegie patches. Adly the newer housing estates are tiny - we've moved from the quarter acre standard blook to 300 or 400 metre squared. I love that there is a google map for fruit trees in melbourne, the ones that hang over peoples's fences and thus are ripe for the picking. So people clearly value food like this. IBut food has got so cheap and peoples time has become so poor that no on eseems to be growing food themselves. Our local council laws are changing to allow food on nature stripps in some areas which is awesome. Iwish it was compulsory for every person to have a vegeetale garden and grow something. I do thing the tide is shifting. Ihope so anyway.
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A bit of a different context in Aus, but it seems like. similar trend away from connection to food. Although there is a bit of a renaissance. That's neat to hear of early migrant. There was certainly a reserved de in the USA during WWII where the govt promoted victory garden and there was a surge of home grown food, wher the heck did that go? Just shows how the public actions can be VERY swayed by propoganda send promotional movements by govt or corps.
It's a shame to hear about the loss of interest, but I feel as a culture were waking up to the bigger picture. I hope..
I hope so too. Victory gardens were also promoted in England... do your bit for the war effort!! Did you know this was when eggs started to become more popular as no one really ate them much?? In Australia, whilst people were suffering from rations in Europe, we apparently were eating steak. Abundance was our blessing. If I ruled the world Id force everyone to work in community gardens 😁😁😁
How fascinating about the rise of egg popularity, thanks for sharing that interesting tidbit. I can imagine you now ruling from the throne, proclaiming that all the citizens must therefore take their turn in the gardens.. hehe
Oh I would so be a dictator!!!