Housing Estates On Farmable Land... Does this worry you?

[luna moth]

Maybe if everyone at least had a vegie patch in their housing estate backyards that would help...

Better still if we let go of this idea of backyards altogether. You want to live in the city, you live in high to medium density housing. You want space, you go to the country. The suburbs is the worst of both worlds, and it's causing damage, as evidenced by these moves into farmable land.

But nobody wants to let go of their view to build up. We're against "over"development. And we all want our patch of grass, that we then whinge about having to maintain.

[Trillian]

Then there is also the problem that city folk just don't realise how much of their food is grown in these areas. I think there needs to be more education about it because the majority of city populations have zero idea about where their food originates and just take it for granted that they can go to the supermarket and get fresh food and don't see the correlation between the food they buy and the nice big block of land they just brought out at Windsor etc. They don't realise that for every 1/4 acre block that is sold out there that it means less food they can buy. What I can see happening is that when things have gotten past the point of no return that people will realise what has happened and then jump up and down demanding that the Govt should have stopped it from happening.