vegan diet

How little land is needed to feed a person in the UK?

John Burton's vegetable garden compost heaps are behind the broad beans.

My father John H Burton wrote the attached article some time in the 1970s or possibly 1980s.  I think it was published in a newsletter about self reliance.

John was a teacher of rural and envirnomental studies - eventually lecturing at what was then Alsager teacher training college (now part of Manchester Metropolitan Univeristy).  He died in 1997.

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