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Why everyone is now an amateur gardener during COVID-19
Whether it’s fear of an impending apocalypse, not being able to find what they want at the supermarket or simply having more time, an increasing number of Australians are turning their hands to growing their own fruits and vegetables.
Landscaping and permaculture suppliers have reported an unprecedented demand over the past month from those with a sudden urge to become more self sufficient.
“The response has been really positive. People are really starting to wake up to the fact that the stuff that we have been rabbiting on about for more than 20 years is starting to come to fruition. You need to build your own resilience,” Mark Brown who with partner Kate Beveridge run the six hectare Purple Pear Farm education centre and biodynamic farm near Maitland, NSW, said.
The huge demand for product prompted Australia’s largest online gardening club, Victorian-based Diggers Club to post a message on its website this week advising that it was not accepting new product orders.
Compounding the supply issue is the ongoing impact of drought for producers.
“We couldn’t grow any seedlings until we got water. Normally I would have a lot more food in the ground but we are struggling ourselves for seedlings,” Ms Beveridge said.
“Bushfire drought and now this means for many people it’s quite a difficult time.”
Lachlan Storrie
Newcastle-based permaculture contractor Lachlan Storrie said he was struggling to source supplies for his business.
“People have just gone nuts for everything from seeds, seedlings to fertilised eggs. Basically everything I need for my job. People are buying the stuff like their lives depend on it,” he said.
And it’s not just the raw materials, there’s also been a surge in interest from people who want to learn the basics of urban food production.
“I think for a lot of people it is something they have had an interest in, but they have been so busy they haven’t done anything about it. They are using this opportunity to take it up,” Ms Beveridge said.
But will the COVID-19-induced interest in growing food led to long-term shift in community attitudes to sustainability.
“A little bit of fear if managed correctly can be beneficial,” Mr Storrie said.
“People will have a memory of how things can go and they will try to live a bit more sustainably.”
Mr Brown shared that hope, but acknowledged he was also a realist.
I would definitely like to see a sustained interest in urban food production,” Mr Brown said.
“But the pessimist who lives within me looks back to the peak oil crisis and how Jimmy Carter and the White House were all gung-ho on sustainable fuel and then they went back to their old ways.”
119 Comments on "Why everyone is now an amateur gardener during COVID-19"
makako aka "the lover" (of muzzies) on Mon, 6th Apr 2020 9:13 am
The Board on Mon, 6th Apr 2020 8:05 am
We suspect delusional davy will distance himself from reality a bit. A lot really.
Oppps, that happened long ago
above is supertard sock obv.
it’s a muzzie lovin sock
it’s controlled opposition sock
Makati1 on Mon, 6th Apr 2020 9:34 am
I have the covid and its given my the squints !
thank christ ive not run out of bog roll!
JuanP on Mon, 6th Apr 2020 9:37 am
Ive had covid for over a month!, infact I have died from it. I am now roaming the Earth in search of brains with the other ‘white walkers’.
Tomorrow I and my skeleton army zombie mates shall reach the gates of Winterfell.
Winter is coming and the night is long and full of farts!
makako aka "the lover" (of muzzies) on Mon, 6th Apr 2020 9:39 am
there’s a lot to say about controlled opposition
ask urself cui bono
muzzies
did muzzie in illinois who said conquer america get amputated? NO
100% of muzzies failed to emulated muhammad the pedo and the offense easily earn amputation then onto hamster machine
we just need to enforce sharia for muzzies on muzies only.
do you remeber super goat supporting tulsi?
i’m the only one calling it out. it’s distration
I AM THE MOB on Mon, 6th Apr 2020 9:44 am
My farts are very wet now so I cant have long left.
When I arise a brain dead zombie in a few days I may finally find some brains to eat or devolve completely to a allah worshipping muzzie.
I promise to keep writing.
From your old braindead pal, I AM THE MOB
makako aka "the lover" ( of muzzies ) on Mon, 6th Apr 2020 9:49 am
I also have the wet farts! but I have plenty of toilet paper suckers! I bought 300 rolls of it a month ago 🙂
Soon the shit will flow from both ends and I can become a muzzie full time.
I promise to keep typing this important info as a braindead mudslime (muzzie).
Davy on Mon, 6th Apr 2020 9:57 am
Well as a MURiCAN I have just gotta say my king – the great golden golem of greatness – King Trump I will wipe the floor with your sorry zombie muzzie covid asses and make the WORLD GREAT AGAIN !
BOO YEAH!
Cloggie on Mon, 6th Apr 2020 10:00 am
All the toilet paper is gone in Holland and my ass is rumbling bad.
All is lost ! 🙁
Its all Englands fault 🙁
REAL Green on Mon, 6th Apr 2020 10:49 am
“Di I tell you I got booted off the moderated side for being childish? I did!”
Were lying again pink poodle. JuanP’s last comment on the member’s forum was this morning.
dumbass
Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 6th Apr 2020 10:52 am
All the toilet paper is gone in Holland and my ass is rumbling bad.
All is lost !
Its all Englands fault
Dutch warehouse worker making a mockery about alleged shortage of toilet paper, while showing mountain osf them:
https://www.ad.nl/video/kanalen/nederlands-nieuws~c400/series/snel-nieuws~s911/heftruckchauffeur-toont-bergen-toiletpapier~p134842
Here Dutch PM Rutte joking in a super market that the Netherlands has enough paper to shit for another decade:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIgqDNGaryk
[1:16] “tien jaren poepen”
JuanP on Mon, 6th Apr 2020 11:47 am
“Were lying again pink poodle. JuanP’s last comment on the member’s forum was this morning.
dumbass”
Well to be honest. I was locked out and given a warning to quit being a loser. I am now back on the moderated side. I will not be given another chance. I can’t help myself but I will try to behave
REAL Green on Mon, 6th Apr 2020 11:57 am
Well to be honest. Were not a registered member of PO dot com Davy. Cus we no we’d get our dumb ass permanently banned.
JuanP on Mon, 6th Apr 2020 12:03 pm
I am on the moderated side because Davy kicks my ass in debate so many times I needed a safe space. When I am on the unmoderated side I am mostly trolling with mindless stupidity of ID theft and low IQ socks.
REAL Green on Mon, 6th Apr 2020 12:07 pm
Everyone no’s were the pink poodle Davy.
Were not foolin anyone but ourselfs. And were makin ourselfs look even stupider then before.
JuanP on Mon, 6th Apr 2020 12:10 pm
I want to be REAL Green but can’t because I am mentally ill. The mentally ill need a doctor but I won’t go cause I like being crazy
Duncan Idaho on Mon, 6th Apr 2020 12:10 pm
“The taverns are fair full of gadabouts making merry this eve. Though I may press my face against the window like an urchin at a confectioner’s, I am tempted not by the sweetmeats within. A dram in exchange for the pox is an ill bargain indeed.”
— Samuel Pepys, 1665
More Davyskum sock puppetry ID theft and lunacy on Mon, 6th Apr 2020 3:27 pm
DavyP the lunatic on Mon, 6th Apr 2020 8:07 am
DavyScum Reports on Mon, 6th Apr 2020 7:31 pm
The ID Theft and Sock puppetry is causing the DavyScum to hallucinate and behave like a full-fledged nutter. The Scum is like a yo yo as you swing back and forth from ID theft and socks to REAL Green DavyScum.
Overall scummy and gross.
shell shockers on Wed, 8th Apr 2020 4:21 am
Raise awareness of isolation and self-isolation when returning from epidemic areas to limit the spread of covid-19 to the community.