I am gonna become an anglophile if I ain't careful. Never heard of the Diggers
- sounds like it wasn't too safe to be one. Now, are you sure you and your
mates were emulating the Diggers and not the Ranters???
From: salyavin808 <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, July 5, 2015 3:05 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Brit Society
---In [email protected], <mjackson74@...> wrote :
You Scorpions have an interesting society. I was just reading that you still
have allotments in England. That is mighty interesting - I wonder how it works
in reality - what if one person likes to grow their veggies organically, and
the chap in the adjacent allotment likes to use various sorts of poisons? Also
had to laugh when I read that some time ago some genius decided to use the
metric measurement of lots instead of the traditional poles. Wonder who did
that?
Yes we do still have allotments, and long may that continue. Anyone can apply
for one but there is a waiting list as they don't provide new land these days.
There are several plots in my town but me and some friends took over a bit of
unused land by a river and called it the asquatment. We formed a land
reclamation union based on an old peasant movement called The Diggers who took
over common land to grow food on.
We grew good stuff there for years but I moved away and other people got bored
and it all got overgrown, so there isn't much going on there now. Shame as
there's nothing like freshly grown food. We had a little shed and some picnic
chairs next to the river and I used to spend summer evenings there, but it's
gone now. Someone must have pinched it.
Don't know how they cope with the pesticides in allotments but in farming, you
can't call food organic if it's been grown near food that isn't organic, or on
land that has had pesticides used on it in the last 5 (?) years.
Diggers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Diggers were a group of Protestant radicals, sometimes seen as forerunners to
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