Allotments, ready to grow crops and which are allocated to the people signing up for the scheme, have been set up on the outskirts of some towns. They are the organised and controlled version of a trend that has always existed around the cities and large towns where vegetables were grown on abandoned plots of land, usually by people who had migrated to the urban areas from the country. In the past, towns, and even large ones, had market garden where produce was cultivated for their own consumption and that is still reflected in place and street names.
En definitiva vivimos tiempos de profundos cambiosIn short, we live in times of far-reaching changes. La agricultura tradicional que aquí se describeThe traditional agriculture described here, en buena medida conservada tan solo en la memoria de nuestros informantes de mayor edadand which only remains in the memory of our elderly informants, tiene los días contadoshas seen its day. Sobrevive una agricultura profesionalizada cada vez más intensiva e industrializada y más dependiente de avatares políticos y económicos dictados muy lejos de los campos de laborAn increasingly more intensive and industrialised professionalised agriculture, and which is very dependent on the economic and political vicissitudes from the land itself, will survive. Pero a juzgar por los movimientos que se resisten a darlo todo por perdidoYet to judge from the movements that refuse to give up, it does not seem that this activity, no parece que esta actividadthis way of life, este modo de vidaso closely linked to our history and to our territory, tan ligado is going to totally disappear. This volume seeks to record that our rural folk and our ancestors knew and practiced agriculture on a nuestra historia y more human scale and from a nuestro territoriomore holistic approach, vaya a extinguirse. Sirva este volumen para dejar constancia de que nuestra gente del campo y sus antepasados conocieron y practicaron una agricultura cuya escala era más humana y con una visión más holísticawhere not only the yield is taken into account, but also the complex network of physical factors and human beings involved in an activity that, in short, donde no solo se tenía en cuenta el rendimiento sino también la compleja red de factores físicos y seres vivos implicados en una actividad que en definitiva se basa en cultivar la vida que nos da alimentois based on cultivating the life that feeds us.{{DISPLAYTITLE: Consideraciones generales sobre la agriculturaGeneral remarks on agriculture}}{{#bookTitle:Agricultura en Vasconia | Agricultura_en_vasconia}}