- Location
- North Somerset.
Would letting plots as allotments be an option, that way the 'communist' element would be taken out of the process since it individuals would reap the rewards of their hard graft.It was Sunday evening idealistic ramble. I've floated the kibbutz idea in the pub before now. People tend to lose interest when you mention they'd be lucky to earn minimum wage at least in the set up phase. Then there the tax and accounting issues. Are they employees, self employed, shareholders, directors etc? And it needs good and experienced leadership if it isn't to quickly end in failure.
It would be interesting though to hive off say 3 acres and let my lefty friends get on with it. Not sure I could cope with such a system. I like to be in control of my patch. As I said earlier though there are lots of people around nowadays who are what I would call semi employed who would have the time to do it, and initially the enthusiasm.