---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diggers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diggers Diggers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diggers The Diggers were a group of Protestant radicals, sometimes seen as forerunners to modern anarchism,[1] and also associated with Agrarian socialism,[2][... View on en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diggers Preview by Yahoo
