'It is frustrating to be on the list for so long because of this and having less access to better quality food.'
Gabi Saenger Silva, who lives in Toxteth, has been on an allotment - an area of land used for the use of growing fruit and vegetables - waiting list for five years in Liverpool. The 45-year-old, originally from Brazil, applied for three different locations around the L8 area and believes the most competitive allotment is in Greenbank with it being “almost impossible” to get.
“It makes a lot of difference for me to consume products knowing how they were grown and how they were taken care of. In a way, it is frustrating to be on the list for so long because of this and having less access to better quality food. It’s a skill that takes a long time to learn, learning how things grow in which condition, and I don’t want to waste my skill.”
In the local authority of Liverpool, 1,355 applications sit on allotment waiting lists. As a result of this, an allotment-sized living artwork, The Waiting List, was guerrilla-planted by volunteers at a disused Tesco-owned site in Litherland in an act of defiance against the industrial food industry.
“The artwork’s size may seem huge but you can see how many more allotments this relatively small piece of industrial land could hold - and each one would enable a family of four to feed themselves. If every allotment request on today’s local authority waiting lists was granted, they could collectively feed cities the size of Nottingham and Leicester combined.”
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