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Bringing food production home

Has anyone heard of Landshare???
I met Phil dudman this week at MIFGS and after previously hearing about the idea of sharing land and growing vegetables I thought the idea was brilliant!!
(Last night I dreamt that the tailend of a plane dropped off and many people died, shocking I know. Sometimes I have wierd dreams,but I realised that many people had to be fed and we had to start planting seeds and getting food growing.) Ignore that bit.
The idea is that many people don't have the room to grow their own food on a large scale and others have lots of room but can't manage the size of their properties
It is a way of bringing people and skills together and sharing resources, I have already started thinking of an area that could be developed on our property using minimal resources and perhaps being very productive, and wondering what you all think?
Here is a link to their website http://www.landshareaustralia.com.au/index/

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Bring back the old allotments they used to have in England. Bloody great idea. We have so much uynused space around our cities that is just fallow and an eyesore, shame we can;t do something better with it...

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poor landless folks used to "share crop" here in the states but it was a meager existence at best. land share sounds way nicer..... because sharecropping was in fact the "shit end of the stick"....lol. sooo much wasted space so few seeds.

There is a community garden in Ellenbrook (alot like the old alotment system but free) , so I thought I would check it out the other day to see how it was going. Given that most houses in Ellenbrook don't have much of a backyard and the resurge in home grown veg I thought it would be booming. sadly only 2 of the est 20 veg beds were being used, I guess that those that choose to live without the space for a veg patch don't care for growing their own all that much, probably why the landshare system in Perth in being under utilised at the moment.

Both community gardens and landshare are great ideas though and even if they are under utilised at leasty people can't complain that they don't have the opportunity.

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I think one of the problems is once people have spent the time and energy to grow something, its stolen of destroyed. You only have to see peoples front yards. No one spends the $$ or time on an area that you can't stop people from helping themselves to.

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Shame that people aren;t utilizing things that are there.... Perhaps as food prices increase people might use them.. Gees I would have thought allotment areas would be popular, not only for those with small yards, but those that just don;t want it in there pristine yards, or those that just want to socialize..

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I think its a great idea personally....but most people can't be bothered to do some work for benifits...its just easier to buy what you want....why would anyone grow thier own

I can feel a rant coming.....yep, here it is



I would round up all the dole bludgers and folks sitting on there arses doing bucket loads of nothing and ask them to work, politely (with the threat of no more tax payers money if you don't ) for 1 day a week donated to a community garden.
All the veggies/crops growen in said garden would be distributed amoungst the the people doing meals on wheels so old people don't have to eat tinned cat food etc .

Rant over

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A few mates used to go out and plant veggies on a couple of cotton farms. The idea was to grow there own and the farmer could get some veggies as well. They would go out and weed and fertilize the gardens. Then when it was time to harvest most of it was gone. The farmers were giving it away to friends by the box full. So they don't do that any more.

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