COUNTRY LIFE
A PLEASING little system of co-operation and local self-sufficiency has come into being In West Sussex. Members of the Village Produce Association, in which women play the major part, take a small bit of ground, say halt an acre, and get the farmer to plough it for them, at the same time as he is working his own adjacent field. By way of return for this service they promise to help the farmer in the collection of his potato crop, which needs much extra labour. The excellent V.P.A. continues to expand. The West Sussex branch now produces a neat little booklet of garden advice. Has any statistician estimated how much these village gardens, with pigs, poultry, goats and so on, add to the nation's food supply ? The sum would be very large indeed.
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