Q: Think about your own relationship with food? Chances are you make explicit links between food and the body as a matter of course, but how often do you think about food as product of the landscape and as a shaper of landscape systems? How about as it shapes our social and cultural lives?

This subject has become increasingly brought up and spoke about in my life recently. With our new design project Golden Lane Estate and trying to think about a sustainable lifestyle, food production and landscape systems being a big part of this. After last weeks lecture (4th February) titled urban territory I’ve really started thinking about the effect us as human beings have on the landscape.


It’s amazing the effect that just knowing a little more about this subject has had on me as a person, and it makes me wonder if children were taught about the subject throughout education maybe they would have more of an impact in the future.

I'm a big lover of food and good food at that - and i do believe that good quality food tastes better meaning i believe in 'good food'. Since I've been young we’ve always had a vegetable patch and I've never took much interest but I beginning to realise that I should have. I and my sisters think its crazy when dad will come in with an armful of leeks and we’ve been in onions that came out of the garden since August and there is still plenty hanging up in the barn. It almost makes me proud to eat home grown vegetables’ now. :)

Looking at the wider picture however I begin to wonder is it really possible help the situation, food is vital to everyday life and people do take it for granted but its because they don’t know any different, people don’t think about it and I think if they the country would be in major panic! It’s scary to think how far our dinner has travelled just to get on out plates for dinner time.