Grow your own food is it more or less sustainable?

What life skills are being lost to technology and time pressures?

Many people are now seeking out the ‘old ways’ of parents and grandparents to live more sustainably.
Every generation thinks they have found a better way of doing things than the people who came before them. It’s one of the reasons teenagers ridicule their parents and why the contribution of older people is so often undervalued.

But we turn our backs on traditional skills and knowledge at our peril. “Progress” rarely runs in straight lines and right now there may be more U-turns ahead than we bargained for.
The gradual dawning of the need for more sustainable living has cast “old ways” in a more favourable, and indeed fashionable, light.

The soaring cost of living is a new pressing reason to count the cost of convenience.
There are signs of a new appreciation of how our parents, or at least grandparents and great-grandparents, could turn their hands to creating and repairing, before life became an ever-quickening cycle of buy, throw away and repeat. The trouble is that once these abilities skip a generation or more, it’s much harder to revive them.

Granted, it seems there’s a “how to” YouTube video for almost any conceivable human endeavour, but that’s a poor substitute for real life, parent-to-child transfer of expertise. What life skills are being lost to technology and time pressures?

Self-sufficiency may be out of the question but how many families have lost the ability – or at least the inclination – to cultivate even the occasional contribution to the dinner table?

In 2008, he reckons the positive response then was a “recession thing”. In that downturn, people who found themselves with more time and less money were attracted to the idea of growing food – if only they could learn how to do it.

“People feeling we need to do more and food is a great opportunity in our daily lives – we can make more sustainable choices three times a day or by growing our own food.”

A current surge in interest “is more akin to the recession in 2008”, he says. “Again it is a food security concern. A general sense that when the pillars of society are wobbling a bit, I think people tend to latch on to things that make them feel more in control – growing and cooking help us feel that way.”

Take the recent shortage of peppers, tomatoes and lettuce and salad leaves, attributed to a “perfect storm” of issues: principally rain in Spain combined with rising fuels costs. “I think that is just the tip of the iceberg for disruption that climate change and an increasingly chaotic world is going to visit upon us,” says Kelly. One solution, that can tick the three boxes of supply, sustainability and saving money, is to grow your own, and he is always amazed at how daunted people are by that idea.

“They seem to be afraid of looking foolish or silly if they get it wrong because we are all about succeeding in life. There are some basic skills you need for sure – but you can be taught those and that is where we see ourselves as an organisation, helping people to do it successfully. The good news is that you will be able to produce food even in your first years when you’re trying to figure it out.”

So give it a Go and as every little helps

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