Sowing the seeds: A blooming English horticultural sector

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• Lyn Posts: 23,190

  November 2023 edited November 2023

  We’ve still got work here but they won’t do it.  That’s why they employ Eastern Europeans to do it. 

  Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 
  
  

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• Slum Posts: 385

  November 2023

  B3 said:

  I think the comparison between wages in Morocco an the UK is meaningless unless you factor in the cost of living in each country.

  Meaningful in regard to what we pay for tomatoes in the UK.

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• McRazz Posts: 440

  November 2023

  Lyn said:

  We’ve still got work here but they won’t do it.  That’s why they employ Eastern Europeans to do it. 

  I don't agree with it but I think ideologically and culturally we've very much moved away from that mindset in this country. That being said anything that removes the necessity for humans to carry out mundane hard graft in the field is a good thing in my opinion. 
  

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• Lyn Posts: 23,190

  December 2023

  Well yes but the Eastern Europeans can make big money doing our farm work.  Would be a shame for those people. 

  You’re right in saying that we’ve culturally moved away from that.
  Maybe it’s townsfolk who think it’s romantic and should be on the curriculum,  country folk may feel differently. 

  I could never imagine someone from a town moving to the country to do farm work. 

  Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 
  
  

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