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Hadlow College’s entry in this year’s Hampton Court Palace Flower Show is entitled ‘Food 4 Thought’ – and it really will get you thinking.

I haven't bought any air fresheners for many years but do like to fragrance the air sometimes, especially if I've been cooking kippers or have burnt the toast.

It's logical that what goes around must, in time, come around. This is certainly so in the case of ‘natural remedies', ‘botanical medicine', ‘medical herbalism', ‘herbal medicine', ‘herbology' and ‘medicinal horticulture'.

‘Going green' is extending into new and unusual situations. In pursuance of ‘urban agriculture', people living in cities and towns have been encouraged to give serious consideration to installing a kitchen garden on balconies, flat roofs and other suitable high spaces. This initiative should be seen in light with statisticians' predictions suggesting that cities are more likely than rural areas to suffer the effects of any future food shortages. Now ‘greening up' is extending rapidly into country towns and villages - but not necessarily in order to produce food!

‘Grow your own'... ‘five-a-day'.... ‘urban agriculture'...'grower group'... ‘allotment clubs'.... ‘plot-to-plate'.... ‘food security'.
Just some of the words and phrases that increasingly feature in the media every day and which, as a result, have evolved to become a meaningful part of our vocabularies.

We all come from hunter gatherers. We have all the equipment to survive as they survived but we have lost the experience and the brain patterning that made their senses strong.