Digging In: Britain’s Green Revolution on the Home Front
April 12th, 2007Once people understand the complex of issues related to food, the rest falls into place pretty damn fast.
Via: Guardian:
During the second world war the government famously urged every able man and woman in Britain to “dig for victory” – to grub up their flower beds and tear up their lawns to grow vegetables to avoid widespread hunger. Today, a new British land army of gardeners appears to be doing the same to avoid eating industrially-produced foods.
New figures from the Horticultural trades association show a 31% increase in the sales of vegetable seed to householders, and a corresponding 32% decline in the sale of flower seeds. We are also buying nearly twice as many seedlings and young edible plants like tomatoes and marrows, and are growing far more herbs than ever before.
Confirmation that the worm is turning away from flower growing to vegetables comes from the Royal Horticultural Society and seed companies, which say that vegetable seeds sales are now outstripping flower seeds for the first time since the second world war.
Suttons, which sells nearly a third of all household vegetable seeds in the UK, said this week that there had been a massive increase in vegetable growing in Britain. “We are seeing a big move away from flower seeds to vegetables. There has been a dramatic rise in things like sales of onions and potatoes. Spuds in particular are nearly 60% up on last year, which was 20%-30% up on the year before,” a spokesman said. This year the company expects a 30% increase in its sales of UK vegetable seeds.
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The reasons given for the shift to vegetable growing in the most urbanised country in Europe range from a political desire to not be beholden to large supermarkets, to a new awareness about healthy food and the environment, and deep dissatisfaction with industrially grown food.
Research Credit: Path to Freedom
I’m wondering when there’ll be a tax on home-grown food here and onerous auditing requirements, unannounced inspections, confiscations, etc.
Fight or Flight? Flight to the safety of your own garden is an excellent and beautiful idea.
If you want to Fight, have a look at this incredibly inspiring video of Alex Jones bullhorn the Bilderberg Conference.
http://www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com/videos/JonesBilderberg.html#Title
Jones farts into the wind there. I think his heart is in the right place, but he has lot a lot of credibility with some of his stunts and his hastiness to publish certain suspect materials.
I feel the only way to take action against the NWO in days before the populace becomes desperate enough to care, is to establish personal sovereignty by opting out of the debt-interest-crappy-job system and attaining as high a degree of self-sufficiency in as many areas as possible (food production, skill sets, provision of life options, etc.)