Growing food is a new buzz subject as more and more people want to grow their own vegetables and keep a few animals to eat. Many people are taking small sections of their gardens and transforming them into crop patches where they can plant a few vegetable plants to produce seasonal vegetables. In the UK there is a shortage of land to grow vegetables and many households in the UK do not have their own gardens or do not have gardens that are suitable to grow vegetables in. New schemes across the country have been created to provide people with land who don’t have any, this land comes from people who have too much land but don’t use it; the scheme allows unused land to be used for crop production.

There are many reasons for a person to grow their own food. Reasons include helping the environment by cutting carbon emissions from the reduction in transport for the food; knowing what has been put into the food prior to it being eaten (i.e. pesticides) and cost benefits of growing your own food.

There can be a few problems with growing food as crops can fail, the location they are grown in can be hazardous to the crops due to local wildlife and there may not be the right nutrients in the soil. Growing food is not just growing fruit and vegetables it can and does include keeping animals such as chickens that do not take up much space and provide both meat and eggs for food.