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Thu 03 Mar 2009Why growing your own food is back on the menu
Concerns about climate change and obesity as well as the recession have led to an increase in home-grown food, writes JOHN GIBBONS
ALLOTMENTS HAVE long had something of an image problem. They conjure up pictures of mildly eccentric types in scruffy woolly jumpers pottering around absent-mindedly in the cabbage patch. In other words, it’s not the kind of place you’d expect to find Michelle Obama, a quintessential city girl to her manicured fingertips.
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