{"id":48948,"date":"2017-03-21T12:30:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T05:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/safeguarding-the-allotment-archive-21-march-1925\/"},"modified":"2017-03-21T12:43:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T05:43:23","slug":"safeguarding-the-allotment-archive-21-march-1925","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/safeguarding-the-allotment-archive-21-march-1925\/","title":{"rendered":"Safeguarding the allotment – archive, 21 March 1925"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n21 March 1925: The war forcibly reminded us as a nation of the value, as well as the fun, of making something edible grow on unused landEditorialWe are not, fortunately, so far ahead of Adam that we cannot take pride in a successful bit of digging. The war, indeed, has to its credit side the fact that it forcibly reminded us as a nation of the value, as well as the fun, of making something edible grow on unused land. Many thousands of citizens whom the army did not want waged, in the days of potato queues, an unaccustomed campaign on neighbouring nettle-beds and turned the dull face of suburban waste land into nursery gardens. They did it as a matter of duty. They continue to do it because they find it profitable and enjoyable. Continue reading…
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