29 years living in the bigger county of Portugal - Odemira…
29 years living in the countryside…growing up and seeing my grandparents, my parents, my neighbours making their farming…
Yes, where i live having even a little farm is a good way to run a little bit of crisis because in this way we don’t have to buy every food in supermarket (in big cities people have to buy everything).
Here my parents plant potatoes…my grandparents plant beans…my neighbour plants for example peas and then all of us have everything of this to eat. We share a lot. “if i have a lot i can give a little to you and you give me a little of what you plant” and like my father says “this is like in the old times”.
Personally I don’t meet any project of “community farming” but close to where i live i saw a project where City Hall has a big ground and gives all the conditions (for example water ) so that who wants can sow what they want. In my opinion this is a very good kind of project because gives to people some tools to fight the crisis with their own work and provides new relations between people.