Russia’s Eco-Miracle

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Russia’s Eco-Miracle

More than half of the food in Russia is produced ecologically thanks to the millions of families that grow their own parcels in their leisure time. The Russian state gives away such parcels for free for non-commercial agricultural purposes. For the Russian people this is a culture consisting of widely connected networks with supplies of healthy fresh food and a family friendly lifestyle (kinship domains). This self subsistence also has a spiritual side inspired by the book series about the woman Anastasia who lives in the Siberian forests.

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From May and onwards to September the families commute in the weekends and spend their summer holidays at their dachas in order to provide healthy food and increase the family economy to a significant degree. In particular, they grow potatoes which are seen as too important to be let in the hands of commercial interests, but they also grow plenty of carrots, onions, cucumbers, garlic, red beets, tomatoes, squash, radishes and some herbs. Also fruit trees and berry bushes are richly planted and harvested, so that in reality what has been created is more precisely called permaculture. It is common to have more than six kinds of fruits and berries such as red currants, apples, red raspberry, gooseberry, plums, strawberries and pears.

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