Start Growing Food Like Your Life Depends On It

Taking back control of our food production is more urgent than ever before

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Long ago, your humble garden was one speck in a boundless forest, or perhaps a clearing sown with the first cultivated seeds. The chances are your small patch of land once fed a crying baby and kept our species alive.

Fair to say, food production has changed in the last ten thousand years. Today, fossil-fueled machines plough vast monoculture fields, while most gardens raise nothing but a neatly-mown lawn — and produce nothing but a bill for hose water and mower fuel.

But the world hasn’t stopped changing just yet. As we witness the wreckage left by this global pandemic, the fragility of our current status-quo has been laid bare. Even more than human ingenuity, stark necessity remains the mother of change. And our need now couldn’t be greater…

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Food Security

This wouldn’t be the first time we’ve dug up our manicured lawns to grow food. The so-called ‘Victory Gardens’ of the two world wars turned lawns (as well as golf courses, railway verges, and sports fields) into…