Planting vegetables in cemeteries or at bus stops…a new trend?
Planting vegetables in a cemetery or at the bus stop sounds amusing?
Well, this is what happens when two women in a small town realize that vegetables could be planted in the flowerbeds of the local parks and along the edges of the town's cemetery. A revolution, of a planting kind, is born.
That's what happened in Todmorden, in Yorkshire. The women started planting rhubarb and chard and other vegetables in municipal tubs by the bus stop, on the railway platform, at the school, in the cemetery, outside the doctors' office. Their goal was to inspire others to start growing vegetables wherever they could: in their own back gardens, on balconies, outside their offices...
This revolutionary project is called: Incredible Edible Todmorden and it aims to increase the amount of local food grown and eaten in the town. Businesses, schools, farmers and the community are all involved. Vegetables and fruit are springing up everywhere. Public flower beds being transformed into community herb gardens and vegetable patches.
«Our aim is for the town to be self sufficient in vegetables by 2018.»
Local farm produce can now be found in shops cafes and market stalls, and the IET loyalty card is helping us fund our community orchards.
Todmorden is preparing for climate change and marshalling our many human resources to fit us for a future where we need to be more self sufficient in food.
If every small town or villages would do the same, we would see a huge change in our food supply chain. Locally grown food is the best, and the idea to plant flowers and vegetables on concrete sites is a good initiative to reduce global warming!
Read more :
Incredible Edible Todmorden.
Source:
Treehugger.com.
Posted by on 01/21 at 03:37 PM
Really this is just a smart thing to do. For a cemetary many veggies and fruits have beautiful blooms on them and once the garden produced the food could go to deserving charities to feed the poor.
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