The food crisis Bryan Bruce Documentary tonight

[Lilith7]

And for many of us gardening is not something they know how to do.  My grandmother taught me, I didn't get the basics from school, and it wasn't until I had a home of my own that I got serious about it.

I think the trend towards gardens in schools will help, as will the current fashion for indoor plants. It all helps educate and spread the addiction...

Yep, not everyone knows  & as I''ve been saying for what seems like a couple of hundred years, basic gardening should be among the basics taught in schools by people with experience in home gardening. But there does sem to be a trend towards community gardens as well as in schools so perhaps that's all going to make a big difference.

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The problem is that so many simply don't......... The bottom line is that we simply have too many people trying to live in over-crowded conditions and so many of them have too much access to junk food to be motivated to grow their own.

I believe the problem lies with our society where convenience, and instant gratification, is king. The idea of planning lives more than a week, or in some cases a day, in advance is totally foreign to them. The supermarkets operate on a 3 day product replenishment system and many households struggle to consume the food they do purchase before it has to be binned. The lack of a vege garden, deep freeze or structured weekly meal plan makes many people totally reliant on a hand to mouth existence that is not that far removed from the subsistence lifestyles of impoverished third world societies.

Not an easy fix as Bryan alluded to but with an electorate system based on a three yearly popularity contest don't hold your breath in it happening any time soon.

That I think has been a contributing factor - some people now just don't have the skills to cook much apart the from basics, if that & then there's the cost of fast food being relatively cheap, too.