Cities urged to plant fruit trees
Fruit trees and bushes should be planted in the public areas of our cities, and every garden turned into a traditional orchard, a leading food policy expert has said.
Professor Tim Lang, of the Centre for Food Policy at City University, London, wants fruit trees to grow alongside roads and blackberry bushes in parks.
"Fruit should be everywhere," he said, in a bid not only to increase the food that is grown in UK cities, but also the amount of fruit that we eat.
Prof Lang, who coined the term `food miles` and recently took over as president of organic-gardening charity Garden Organic, said: "One of my dreams for the coming period is to try and inject a view that public space can grow food.
"We’re going to see a really exciting opportunity to inject a food growing dimension into even the most overtly built environment, let alone the green spaces in civic space."
And he added: "If kids steal the apples, terrific. If people start looking at public space as growing space and reclaim it rather than retreating into private space, terrific."
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