Lockdown prompts gardening resurgence and appreciation of food production

Ashley Walmsley
Updated August 20 2020 - 1:43pm, first published July 28 2020 - 11:00am
INTEREST: The COVID-19 restrictions which prompted housebound residents to embrace gardening could lead to an interest in horticulture, and/or an appreciation of the farmer's skill.
INTEREST: The COVID-19 restrictions which prompted housebound residents to embrace gardening could lead to an interest in horticulture, and/or an appreciation of the farmer's skill.

THE appreciation of the farmer could be an unexpected but positive outcome from Australia's COVID-19 lockdowns of 2020.

Ashley Walmsley

Ashley Walmsley

Editor, Good Fruit & Vegetables

Ashley Walmsley is the editor of ACM's only national, fresh produce magazine, Good Fruit & Vegetables, while also covering horticulture stories for the agricultural papers and websites. He also writes the weekly, The Ringer, column in the Qld Country Life.

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