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Speaking on the BBC Radio’s Farming Today programme as part of the Rethink series, Prince Charles praised the ‘dig for victory’ spirit that has taken over Britain during the coronavirus crisis. He applauded the way that many have used their gardens, allotments and even window boxes to grow their own food in a “way not seen since the Second World War.“
But Prince Charles warned that the future of food production has been brought into question during the coronavirus pandemic, and that we must all think about the ways we live with nature in the future.
Prince Charles suggested that food shortages during the coronavirus epidemic might have made people think about the means of food production for the first time, and that the crisis could lead to a ‘transformation’ of the country’s food and agricultural systems.
Silver linings
Prince Charles said: ‘Perhaps there are one or two silver linings amongst the otherwise very dark clouds which have been affecting us all over the last three months and one of those is the issue of food.
“Food availability was clearly an early issue; perhaps food shortages prompted many people to think for the very first time about whether they could depend on secure and reliable supplies of food in the post-Covid world?
“I was fascinated to hear that sales of vegetable seeds reached an all-time high as a “dig for victory spirit” swept through the land and urban and country dwellers alike decided to requisition their gardens, allotments and window boxes to grow food in a way perhaps not seen since the Second World War.’
