Attention to 'growing vegetables on your own' is rising rapidly

People are turning to agriculture as curfew bans are issued around the world, raising concerns that food may not be available due to stagnant distribution and buying. In the midst of the global crisis, the growing public attention on self-cultivation, saying that people will not really be free without controlling the food system by themselves, has been raised by the American public radio networkNPR I tell you.

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Following the epidemic of the new coronavirus infection, a curfew was issued in the United States, and buying up supermarkets has become a problem.

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In the United States, food is often not available at supermarkets, so many people are turning to self-cultivation. When Oregon State University's Master Gardener Program focused on this and announced that online gardening courses would be free for a limited time on Facebook, it was said that it became a topic that was shared more than 24,000 times.

George Ball, a representative of Burpee Seed Compan, which sells seeds, says that seed sales are skyrocketing. It seems that there was a tendency for seed sales to rise when the economy was bad, such as the sharp fall in the stock price in 1987 and the bursting of the bubble bubble in 2000, but such a sharp increase in sales was seen in a wide range of the United States , It is not in the past.

In the United States and Europe during the First World War, wartime plantations were used to grow crops using gardens and parks, but some students have launched crowdfunding to revive them.

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'To be free we need to be able to eat ourselves,' said Leah Penniman, a farming expert and community farmer in New York. Penniman has long been distributing education programs about agriculture while fighting the inequity of the food system.

'Without a way to control the food system, we can't really gain freedom, autonomy, dignity, community power, etc. It is this truth that people are more interested in gardening I think it's because of that, 'said Penniman. In fact, Jameson Altot, who usually makes up more than half his family's diet with homegrown food, says, 'We are very lucky to have enough food. Still canned fruits and vegetables, jams and berries. There are also meats in the refrigerator. '

In addition, actor Tom Holland who played Peter Parker in the movie ' Spider-Man: Homecoming ' revealed that he bought chickens because he could not buy eggs because he bought a supermarket.

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