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Can small farms feed the world?

The Food Chain

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How to Grow Carrots All Year Round

There's holes in the plastic to allow the moisture to get in and these are protected from the worst of the frost. So what it'll do is give continuity of supply of UK produced carrots all year round. If all this was grown organically we'd see a big jump in prices on the supermarket shelf. The Houston estate farm grows 8 000 tons of carrots 25,000 tons of potatoes 20,000tons of onions as well as tons of sugar beet barley and wheat for bread.

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