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I believe the biggest issues lie in modern farming unfortunately… and I don’t mean to be proportioning blame onto the industry as in my mind it is driven by the consumer and the provider, we simply do not pay enough for our food in this country, allotments I think are a kind of last bastion of providing for ones self, the new builds do not cover a postage stamp in usable ground and we have lost a way in providing for ourselves.
Allotments appear vogue at present, if our local ones are anything to go by. though our food wastage is extreme through economics.
The no dig principle is interesting and one I have been reading a lot into, though I have expedited the process ( weed control) by a thorough process of glysophate, digging for couch and bindweed and redigging in manure and mulching with compost heavily though the plot I work was undug for 7 years and waist height,
The worm population is fantastic and hereon in I will now resist any kind of digging…. I realise Charles expones mulching as a top down basis but I wanted to manipulate the plot a bit quicker.