London is actually 60% green space and Londoners could do a lot more to provide for themselves.
The current fuel and food crisis may not be as short lived as some may wish. Day and night, trucks and trains restock London's supermarkets. If London's food and fuel suppliers found higher bidders for their scarce food or fuel then what good is a highly paid job in a city that can't fend for itself in an emergency?
With so much green space going unused it is about time cities started growing more of their own food. The individual can start by growing in their gardens rather than leaving it to grow over with weeds. Flat roofs can be used for container growing and bee keeping.
You can grow a lot of food in a small space, even in a small yard or the balcony of a block of flats. If a city became deserted over night then within months it would be overgrown. Nature knows that things will grow in the most unlikely places. It's about time that humans knew this too.
BBC - Sowing the seeds of urban farming
Making cities fend for themselves
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So true. And, growing plants benefits the environment in many ways.
My neighbor has a small patch of soil in the his driveway. He planted lettuce, eggplants and tomatoes, and now he harvests from it and is his source of vegetable.
I was a nonbeliever at first but when his plants were verdant and healthy , I thought, I should have done it also.
Thanks for sharing.
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