Every city needs spaces people can use to grow food.

In the UK, they are called allotments, America needs the same.

Taxes spent to provide space and help keeping the soil manageable, instead of stupid city agrandizement, and corrupt political persons projects for relatives and money laundering.

Schools should have GARDENING clubs, instead of stupid expensive sports departments. Millions of dollars spent on equipment and facities to kick a bloody ball about... sick.

I was rised some years after WWII . So many families had lost their homes. To recover our lessons were about growing food and work diff. materials to learn how to build essential things.

Land is so scarce in the UK that waiting lists for allotments can be years, our waiting list was one day because God decided it we were astonished.

Any surplus must be managed in advance with knowledge of blanching/freezing, canning, dehydrating, pickling, chutney making, preserve making.

Allotment holders need these skills.

Learning one at a time is best, this will guard against being overwhelmed with knowledge.

Having said all that, in times of scarcity for all, I fully expect any hard work growing and producing food at the allotment to be ransacked by the ill-prepared.

I will not begrudge them this because they have families too.

Even now the local badgers treat it like a supermarket, but thats what wildlife does, so I will not complain.