Dig for your Health

Dig for Victory, Grow your own Food and be Healthy

 

Dig for victory was a theme that I grow up with, all gardens had vegetables and fruit trees, but now houses that are built have small or no back gardens.

I am being asked for allotment places, just one small thing no land.

Kingsteignton was a village that had allotments, but the coming of an age of concrete and housing going up regardless, these spaces were built on.

There is a very big problem now people are asking for land to have allotments to grow their own food.

It has been proven that young people respond very well to see things grow and then eat them, gives self satisfaction, to give a sense of wonder and help them experience something greater then themselves, this in turn fosters a greater quality time as a family.

Can I achieve this no, I asked the Clay company Sibelco if it would sell some land to a Land Trust the amount was 4acres three of which was for an allotment and one acre for affordable housing, that answer was a resounding NO, with all the land at their disposal, the main reason is I was asking to place this land in perpetually for the people of Kingsteignton.

This village has grown so much that it is now a Town with 12k people plus the fact the people who refused us land wish to expand us by a further 6oo houses, at present we are a concrete jungle just think what it might look like with all these people who will not be local.

From the government down we are being told we must have sustainable communities, what a load of rot when they are pushing people in just to make other people millionaires.

 

 

 

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