What food is U.K. self sufficient in ???

[Barleymow]

We could easily be self sufficient is everything that doesn't need a heated greenhouse ?
I see a large tomato grower in Southern England has given up because gas is too expensive now to heat the greenhouses.
We need a concerted approach, fracking, grants for horticulture, greenhouses etc. And all this re wilding guff in the bin where it belongs.

There's a big recently extended one nr Ipswich shut too .was built saying would use heat from the nearby newish incinerator ,that obviously never happened

 

[Hooby Farmer]

Our food can be quite bland in mid winter, compared to the imported foods we can get in the local green grocer or supermarket all year round. We will have to temper our expectations if we are going to become self sufficient. However we have grown some cracking veg in our little plot, and we have just put up a little polytunnel as well so this year should be interesting in what we can produce or at least try to produce.

 

[Dman2]

Self sufficient in bulls**t

 

[quattro]

Dyson doing heated Green Houses and Digestors.

Biggest problem is the ban on growing UK GM foods for animal feed at the very least - imports okay according to the Communists though.

Greenhouses should be near power stations using excess heat

 

[DRC]

Greenhouses should be near power stations using excess heat

And AD plants

 

[wanton dwarf]

Greenhouses should be near power stations using excess heat

If you did put your growing business near a powerstation - the next thing HMG would be doing is blowing it up.

Digestors are literally small power stations - Combined Heat and Power.

 

[wanton dwarf]

Our food can be quite bland in mid winter

This year I've grown a years supply of Onions and Chillis.

Tonight I'm having Penne al'arrabiata - Pasta in a hot tomato sauce, lots of fried onion and melted cheese.

I don't grow Durum Wheat so can't claim the Pasta is home grown - but I bet there are people growing Durum Wheat this year. We can do this.

 

[bobk]

This year I've grown a years supply of Onions and Chillis.

Tonight I'm having Penne al'arrabiata - Pasta in a hot tomato sauce, lots of fried onion and melted cheese.

I don't grow Durum Wheat so can't claim the Pasta is home grown - but I bet there are people growing Durum Wheat this year. We can do this.

Durum wheat is really tricky , my mate in the Dordogne struggles with it

 

[Chae1]

Neeps

 

[wanton dwarf]

Durum wheat is really tricky , my mate in the Dordogne struggles with it

Getting a good yield, disease or nutrients ? From what I've heard it doesn't need even feed Wheat levels of Nitrogen.

 

[bobk]

Getting a good yield, disease or nutrients ? From what I've heard it doesn't need even feed Wheat levels of Nitrogen.

Yield probably , but he gets sh!t yields of everything as it's so dry , trouble it needs loads of sunshine

 

[Spencer]

Didn’t Victoria Prentis state with great gusto that indeed our Great British Isles were in fact self sufficient in Swedes!!!!!

 

[kiwi pom]

And AD plants

As long as the AD plants are running on waste and not taking up valuable land to produce feedstock.

 

[glasshouse]

Plenty of free gas off landfill sites for greenhouses

 

[Weasel]

I know someone who has an AD plant and heats his greenhouses off the excess heat from the plant.

Is he a dairy famer aswell??

 

[BrianV]

Get every last bit he said!

 

[glasshouse]

We’d be self sufficient in a lot of fruit and vegetables easy enough if we accept that it requires freezing in order to supply out of season. And we have the production capacity to be self sufficient in meat and fish I’d imagine.

but don’t think we’re self sufficient in processing capacity in order to take the production to market

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Wtf?

 

[wanton dwarf]

We’d be self sufficient in a lot of fruit and vegetables easy enough if we accept that it requires freezing in order to supply out of season. And we have the production capacity to be self sufficient in meat and fish I’d imagine.

but don’t think we’re self sufficient in processing capacity in order to take the production to market

Want to get some home grown apple pies in the freezer - pudding dish size, probably 1.5 x Mr Kipling but hopefully a lot better.

Blackcurrent and Apple Pie

 

[wanton dwarf]

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Max Torque WTG

 

[TripleSix]

22 million sheep in the UK.

The US only has 5.2 million?!