Brits are being urged to roll up their sleeves and get digging in aid of a new organic campaign.
In his new role as the president of the UK’s leading organic growing charity Garden Organic, Tim Lang, professor of food policy at City University London, has called on the nation to start growing their own food for the launch of the charity’s Dig for Victory campaign.
Mr Lang, a longstanding Garden Organic member and former organic farmer, was formally announced as the new president of Garden Organic at the charity’s 50th AGM on Saturday.
" Gardening is poised to move from a leisure activity with aesthetic purposes to become a vital core function of food production," he said.
"Garden Organic, with its 40,000 members, is well positioned to enable a new culture of exchange between gardeners and encourage people across urban and rural communities to get growing."
"Rather than digging for the victory of the nation as we did during World War II, I see our focus as digging for food democracy, with every person playing their part in the future food supply ."
Garden Organic chief executive Myles Bremner added: "At a time of rising oil prices, lower income and food shortages, growing our own food is a cheap and environmentally sensitive solution."
"Our Dig for Victory campaign will combat head-on the issues of food security by mobilising Britain’s gardeners into using their skills to grow food and enabling non-growers to give growing a try."
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Organic Growing Charity Launch New Gardening Campaign
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