{"id":52511,"date":"2020-04-15T07:14:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T12:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52511"},"modified":"2020-04-15T07:14:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T12:14:08","slug":"the-self-sufficiency-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52511","title":{"rendered":"The Self Sufficiency Surge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablefoodtrust.org\/articles\/the-self-sufficiency-surge\/\">The Self Sufficiency Surge<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Gardening journalist, Kim Stoddart examines the grow your own phenomenon that has emerged as a result of fears around food security since the pandemic lockdown.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the days leading up to the restrictions (and ever since),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-52066454\">there has been a sheer frenzy of interest in fruit and vegetable growing<\/a>&nbsp;as people seek to turn over their back gardens, patios, windowsills (and indeed any available space) to home food production. The seed companies have been so inundated that there have been many reports of websites freezing, as they struggle to cope with the sheer demand for orders.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The panic buying has moved from spaghetti and tinned tomatoes into seed and compost it would seem\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As someone who has been diligently writing away, trying to encourage organic home fruit and vegetable growing for years, even I have been taken back by the tsunami-level wave of interest we\u2019ve seen. If you\u2019ll pardon the pun, it\u2019s a seed of hope that in such challenging times, so many are seeking down-to-earth, nourishing respite where they can. The move into growing your own food is a hugely positive step on a multitude of levels right now and I believe, offers the potential for a more sustainable food system and society post-pandemic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know I\u2019m speaking to the converted here but concerns around food security have long been valid. As renowned food policy expert, Tim Lang writes in his book,\u00a0<em>Feeding Britain<\/em>, released pre-coronavirus: \u2018The UK is, de facto, facing a wartime scale of food challenge.\u2019 He details\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablefoodtrust.org\/articles\/the-coronavirus-pandemic-and-future-food-security\/\">a delicate, massively \u2018just-in-time\u2019, supply chain<\/a>\u00a0which leaves us open to the will of international markets and which is unsustainable in every sense. As the pandemic continues to unfold in real time, the threats become enhanced manifold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Self Sufficiency Surge Gardening journalist, Kim Stoddart examines the grow your own phenomenon that has emerged as a result of fears around food security since the pandemic lockdown. In the days leading up to the restrictions (and ever since),&nbsp;there has been a sheer frenzy of interest in fruit and vegetable growing&nbsp;as people seek to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1912,29448,24625,3237,6867,855],"class_list":["post-52511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-food-production","tag-kim-stoddart","tag-self-sufficiency-2","tag-supply-chains","tag-sustainable-food-trust","tag-viral-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52512,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52511\/revisions\/52512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}