The coast of Labrador is in the news again, not a happy story but one that has been around for some time. Pity something has not been done to address the ever increasing income gape before this, not that it is being addressed now though, just reported.
The online version does not do justice to the aired version, hence some of the disgusting ill informed comments below the article.
There are so many sub stories within this story that my head hurts thinking about them.
Just one food for thought for now [pun intended]. The issue of having community gardens or co op gardens or any gardens for that matter.
I get asked, and read of people asking, why gardens are not in the communities to produce food locally, besides the odd private one that is.
IMO there is no black and white answer; you have to look at history. There were Moravian introduced gardens; there are pictures of the produce produced and of Inuit working in the gardens.
Why did this practice not catch on?
Is it to do with the hunter gatherer mentality of the people?
Is it to do with the lack of copious quantities of good soil?
Is it to do with the climate?
Is it to do with all of the above? Plus other reasons not mentioned.
I do not think it is because the people are lazy; the real reasons are more complicated than that.
Gale Turner has started the ball rolling, not before time either, wonder if the recidivist local members of NG will pick up on it, it’s not like they have not been aware of the issue.
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