Growing food in nurseries and schools is nothing new, but now there's an extra dimension. A worldwide food crisis is on the way, it seems, chiefly because of dwindling reserves of oil (needed for transport, machinery and making fertilisers) and water (without which, nothing grows). Expanding populations, degradation of farmland and increasingly extreme and unpredictable weather patterns compound the situation.
This was all spelled out at a big London conference last year called 'Can London Feed Itself?', organised by Sustain, the alliance that campaigns for better food and farming. We learned of different ways we could help ourselves by growing some of our own food: on balconies, on flat roofs, on land around blocks of flats - and in school grounds.
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