British town grows its own vegetables

[Monica]

Oh I love it I love I LOVE it!!!

What a great idea! I've heard of towns starting community gardens, where everyone pitched in, sharing in the work and the bounty. But this takes it even further! They don't really say much about who's doing all the work, and it's amazing that they're just letting anyone and everyone just take as much as they want, and people aren't abusing it by hoarding.

So what’s to stop me turning up with a huge carrier bag and grabbing all the rosemary in the town?
‘Nothing,’ says Mary.
What’s to stop me nabbing all the apples?
‘Nothing.’
All your raspberries?
‘Nothing.’
It just doesn’t happen like that, she says. ‘We trust people. We truly believe — we are witness to it — that people are decent.’

Is that cool or what??

Check this out...a family in CA grows all their own food...totally self-sufficient. Amazing how much food can be grown in a small yard! Can you imagine if everyone did that? All the world's food problems would be solved.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJjWcOyGVrw

See also:

Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden And Your Neighborhood into a Community by Heather Coburn Flores

An idea whose time has come!