Promote and support allotments
Allotments are healthy outdoor exercise and produce food. Everyone is working separately on their own plot - like their “outdoor home” or a garden. Social distancing works here. We need more allotments across Scotland and some money to ensure good sites. This will ensure local food supplies when the supply chain goes pear shaped. Local allotments for local people eating local food safely locally. It’s a no brainer.
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Local
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Food supply
Sustainability
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Mental health wellbeing
Safe
Food supply
Sustainability
No carbon
Mental health wellbeing
by Lilacshed on May 07, 2020 at 05:09PM
Posted by JoysieJ May 07, 2020 at 17:47
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Posted by scotjs May 07, 2020 at 19:18
Good idea!
We are now growing our own food in our garden and it makes us feel sad and a bit insecure to see so many other gardens around empty or only growing flowers - yes they are pretty - but it's no harder to grow food than flowers and food prices are inevitably going to rise.
Growing our own food as a nation could alleviate all of this. Obviously we will all still use supermarkets for all kinds of things, but we will rely on them less. That can only be a good thing.
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Posted by lmg1612 May 07, 2020 at 20:48
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Posted by IMcDowell May 11, 2020 at 18:47
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