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The dascha gardens are fantastic, and most everyone has one. But it’s something that came out of other times. You grew your own food, or you went hungry. There is no place to garden in the cities, so people went to their daschas on the long weekends to garden, and bring what they could back to town.
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and now in the US we are trying to turn our backyards into dachas Sasha Lemay 😉
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You gotta read this one. While some communities in the U.S. are making it illegal to grow your own food.
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I met a college student from Russia who had worked with her family on their plot- she was really proud of it, and knew a few gardening tricks:) My family had a big plot we shared when I was a kid too, I miss the food.
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You must understand that they do have a choice. Their unemployment rate is at 5.2%, which is very close to our own. The culture there is to grow your own food as much as possible. This is a carry over from the old days of the Soviet Union. The economy is very vibrant and active.
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And there unemployment rate is..? And by that I mean when you don’t work for a living you have a lot more tim on your hands.
Reply It seems that some posting here have a totally skewed idea of Russia. This is not the Soviet Union of old but a completely new and vibrant new Russia. They have a standard of living resembling ours.
Reply Interesting, I just returned from St. Petersburg and Moscow and I heard a different version of what you have stated.
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You are completely mistaken. This is not the Soviet Union but a new Russia. Look at the post above.
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With its notoriously poor infrastructure, Mother Russia is know for having crops rot in the fields while its people starve in the cities. Having your own plot garden is a matter of survival
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The Russian people did this because they had to and then they got pretty good at it. One of those if life hands you lemons things.
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its only possible in Russia.. westernized countries are democratically capitalist and capitalists control the democracy
.. so.its always profits over every thing else
. I lovw rhe idea of a law which protects the fundamental right to grow food and be self reliant. I am surw that is freedom too.
Many still have small gardens varying in size. But for years a large number of people in cities frown on backyard gardening then more are starting to dig in. Better to have a garden than depend all on commercial growers. Growing using your own produce knowing how it grown and putting by saving a lot to families. To much commercialization also bottle necks our crops losing diversity. One major calamity it seems and the shelves are empty and the fighting begins. Better to keep our gardens through good times and bad.
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I started a small garden about 15 years ago and it took some time but at one point I was placing up to 3 vegetables a meal on the table. It really made me feel awesome.
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Elynor Cassinelli I have began to think the reason for all the sugars in processed food is to cover the lack of taste of the product.
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sorry guys, I’m Russian. This is the fairy tale. Over 65% of people live in cities with population over 100K, 10% in Moscow only. Dacha is 0,14 acres only and it host a house and a tiny garden. Most of the people are so poor that they HAVE TO grow something there in order to survive. But the piece of land is so small that you can not have any cows there, not even chickens. The quality of soils is very low so it is deadly hard to grow anything green there. moreover the climate allows only a very short period of vegetation so we have only one harvest for everything and it is a short period from June to October. In reality people of Moscow have powder milk, tasteless vegs and fruits from the supermarkets, industrial chickens full of hormones and so on. If you want to learn from a good experience better choose Greece for example.
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Nous commençons à voir plus souvent cela en France, des petits producteurs souvent en très petite exploitation et bio. C’est peut-être le début d’un retour aux sources contre les grandes surfaces commerciales. Marchés locaux et bio.
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The Baby Boomers are the last generation to have had parents who had truly rough lives living through not only the Great Depression but also WWII with its rationing.
A small hutch of rabbits, a couple of chickens and a garden in any space available in the yards was common place. It was a healthier “greener” world.
It also gave children responsibilities/chores to help with, experience with both the miracles of life and also showed the realities of death.
Today’s younger generations have not had these experiences…..no wonder our society is as screwed up as it is.
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Bulgaria still has many villages where most people have big gardens for growing their own food. Unfortunately these villages are dying as young people flood to cities and other countries looking for work as agri business has taken over from field workers. Houses with huge gardens, fruit trees etc can be bought very cheaply. Leave the cities: https://m.facebook.com/groups/1910030769215955?tsid=0.03147249415986675&source=result
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This has been what the people have had to do for decades to survive. A friend who directed tour groups used to take seeds to give to his Russian guides.
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Eva Mile a lot of the contamination from chernobyl affected the area north of Klinsi, as far as bryansk. I remember working in bryansk and using a radiation monitor at that time.
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