Saturday 30th August 2014

In 'The Allotment' (David Crouch and Colin Ward) - Chapter 2: Cultural Landscapes and freedom - 'Fields, plots and people' there is an expression of a Utopian vision, in which John Seymour is cited as arguing for a 'peopled landscape in terms of Kropotkin's argument for a use of land in which people control their own lives and the landscape they create' - the cutting up of 10,000 acres of exhausted farm land into a thousand plots of 10 acres each; and each plot to be occupied by a family trained to use it.

In 10 years, he asserts, the landscape would be transformed from the indifference of mono-culture to one of 'happy and healthy' multiplicity. (p.37)