SHARED LAND
Rupert Sheldrake claims in his article about family orchards (Issue 280), that his proposal for the sale of agricultural land for small orchard areas is “possible, feasible and desirable”. I beg to differ.
The basis of his suggestion is the extension of private ownership of land to those affluent enough to have a spare £5,000 for a fifth of a ‘secret’ acre. For whom is this “possible and feasible”? Alternatively, he suggests such plots might be rented out for “roughly £1,000 a year”; that compares with my annual allotment rent of £71.50, with the money going to a city council that ...
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