Dig For Victory-style food-growing scheme receives backing amid soaring prices
A grow your own food campaign has been backed as prices soar amid the cost of living crisis.
Councillors voted unanimously in favour of a motion calling for small plots of land to be made available for community food growing at a Shropshire Council meeting.
The proposal resembles the Second World War campaign by the British Ministry of Agriculture, when men and women across the country were encouraged to grow their own food in times of harsh rationing.
Councillor Rosemary Dartnall put forward the motion. She said: “Shropshire communities face a perfect storm of escalating prices for food, for energy just as the evidence for the climate crisis is unfolding before our eyes. This motion requests the council to make available small plots of public land for community food growing.
