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Interest in Gardening
On 2 Mar, 23:37, "Neil Tonks" wrote:
There's been an active interest in gardening in the UK for a LOT longer than 15 years!!!!!! I think what Mike means is that with the increase in population, the needs to build more housing, the change in our cities, the huge redevelopments of our inner cities and the awareness of our environment, in the food we eat, its provenance and its ethics, in the way we live and bring our kids up, means that gardening has taken a new role in our lives, and that in every part of our society, not only for those with acres of land/gardens, or in leafy suburbs. Combine this with the change in our planning policies, the rise of housing prices, education, transport, the aspiration to have a bit of land to cultivate, to be in touch with nature has contributed to the rise of gardening programmes on tv and access to resources for all via gardening centres sprouting up everywhere and not only for a minority of people, not only for one class of people. The rat race, the stuffy office life many leads and the increasing pressures of work have contributed to the creation of giving more choices to people - to reconsider the way they live, the way they work, and given them the choice to change careers and spend their time outside these pressures, bringing with them their knowledge of business, hence the 'garden business' that has increased in the last 15 years. |
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