My parents are 80 in a couple of years. It was the generation before that which experienced, as children, keeping animals for food in the yard. My mother grew up in a house attached to a market garden (mostly flowers, some fruit and vegetables). My parents, as adults, grew some fruit and vegetables, but we were in no way self-sufficient in them. The generations which have direct, lived experience of subsistence farming, which is what she's describing here, are mostly dead.
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No one’s going to feed their family wholly or mainly from an allotment. That said, there are lots of good reasons for community allotment projects - but Carlzzzzz isn’t running one!
(unlike Colin)
(unlike Colin)
Colin is the only Harlow Elder to have shown any interest in this project and she banished him.*
*to his allotment
There is Remote Elder too, who doesn't actually live in Harlow.
The Cumbria Zen man?
That weirdo follows me on instagram (I have a gardening account) He’s liked and commented on a few of my posts and I’ve seen him in the comments of lots of other female gardening/allotment accounts giving unsolicited ‘advice’ including telling someone who had just moved house and was sharing her plans for her lovely big garden that it would be ‘too much for her’!!
*that the Council gave him the keys to
yeah what type of elder does she mean? Being old doesn’t automatically mean you know anything about horticulture… or how to teach children. The lady at my son’s nursery who instigated their vegetable patch is in her 40s. Is she after 90yo? Does this count as age discrimination? As ever, so many questions
My dad is in his 80s and can’t even keep a pot plant alive! It’s actually a luxury to many to not know.
AI Carly is even more enraging than incompetent snarky Carly
Incompetent snarky Carly replying to comment on an AI Carly post is the premium content.
TELL US MORE
Since the initial allegations of a certain substance being consumed, the late evening pie-in-the-sky we will do this we will do that updates have made a lot more sense tbf. (And I don't personally care what people do or don't consume, although of course don't agree with people lying)
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Spill it, comment squig, and we'll nominate you for a BBC Essex award!
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Spill it, comment squig, and we'll nominate you for a BBC Essex award!
Where was this posted?
on the Your Harlow article https://www.yourharlow.com/2024/01/...burds-dream-allotment-could-become-a-reality/
Now we know why she's always dancing it out
tsk tsk, one man after another, with only a few gaps in between
where does that leave our Wayne?
Did each man get a poem?
That’s just beautiful. 
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