Gardening is a great recreation activity and way of meeting people. It is environmentally friendly, good for the health and, with food prices as high as they are in Dublin, an alternative to supermarket shopping. At present allotments leased out or sold by private individuals are massively overpriced. On the other hand, there are long waiting lists for allotments given out by the Council. These could be shortened by turning over more land to allotment gardening. The Council need to investigate turning over as much non-recreational public land as possible to people in order that they can grow their own vegetables. This happened during the last Emergency in Ireland and needs to happen during this one. We are in year 1 of a huge slump and people need alternative green resources. And where suitable private land is lying unused – earmarked for development that will not happen in the near future? Why, guerrilla gardening is the solution!
April 28, 2009...7:59 am
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