The Dutch have used technology and innovation to become the world's second largest food exporter after the USA yet it is one of the most densely populated countries. They have cut the use of pesticides, water, antibiotics yet increased yields in everything from tomatoes to poultry. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/09/holland-agriculture-sustainable-farming/
It requires long term investment and imagination and an awful lot of glass. Not a view I'd want, looking at those acres of greenhouses.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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The Dutch have used technology and innovation to become the world's second largest food exporter after the USA yet it is one of the most densely populated countries. They have cut the use of pesticides, water, antibiotics yet increased yields in everything from tomatoes to poultry. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/09/holland-agriculture-sustainable-farming/
It requires long term investment and imagination and an awful lot of glass. Not a view I'd want, looking at those acres of greenhouses.
Unfortuately, the governments we've had for over half a century have looked no further than the next general election
We use to have acres of green houses and market gardens at one time but unfortunately when we started to get cheaper (not better) from abroad they went into decline and as there was no help they have all but gone.
We grow a lot of food in this country that just gets thrown away because it does not meet the requirements to bent not the right shape etc etc, we need to get away from this and tell SM that we don't care just put it on the shelf and it will sell and help the UK growers.
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
Remember the early days of package holidays, when families would be dragging huge suitcases stuffed full of baked beans and frey bentos pies because they didn’t like all that foriegn muck? Perhaps the trend will reverse and they will be hauling suitcases of tinned toms and veg...
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I’m sure they’ll find some spaces to grow/rear food in the Uk.
at least they’ve taken the poisonous stuff out of newspaper printing ink so we can use that on a nail by the lavvy . Must be better than how it was years ago. 😀
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
We grow a lot of food in this country that just gets thrown away because it does not meet the requirements to bent not the right shape etc etc, we need to get away from this and tell SM that we don't care just put it on the shelf and it will sell and help the UK growers.
I'm afraid it's the customers as well. It's the "wonky" stuff which is left on the shelf at the end of the day. Waitrose, don't discard any veg because of "shape etc etc" it gets processed into soup, pies, ready meals etc. When we contract growers to produce stuff, we take it all. Other, inferior , supermarkets don't.
I have started to use Morrison again, I hate the thought of driving the car unnecessarily but they sell all the wonky veg range, it’s cheaper and what’s the difference? Alison not a plastic bag to be seen. unfortunately they don’t deliver, so it’s the choice of pollution or wonky veg.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I have started to use Morrison again, I hate the thought of driving the car unnecessarily but they sell all the wonky veg range, it’s cheaper and what’s the difference? Alison not a plastic bag to be seen. unfortunately they don’t deliver, so it’s the choice of pollution or wonky veg.
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It requires long term investment and imagination and an awful lot of glass. Not a view I'd want, looking at those acres of greenhouses.
We grow a lot of food in this country that just gets thrown away because it does not meet the requirements to bent not the right shape etc etc, we need to get away from this and tell SM that we don't care just put it on the shelf and it will sell and help the UK growers.
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
at least they’ve taken the poisonous stuff out of newspaper printing ink so we can use that on a nail by the lavvy . Must be better than how it was years ago. 😀
Other, inferior , supermarkets don't.
Alison not a plastic bag to be seen.
unfortunately they don’t deliver, so it’s the choice of pollution or wonky veg.