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A long-term if not immediate objective of the local self-sufficiency initiative (LESSI) is to create surpluses which can be given to those either not able to participate or who are struggling to begin. Ideally these surpluses would replace the stocking needed for most to get started in the first instance. Here is a picture that will surprise most Irish readers, because they will not be old enough to remember it. During the Second World War, the long main road through the Phoenix Park was lined on each side by stacks of turf, harvested from the bogs and stored there as emergency fuel for Dublin homes. Thousands of homes in the Dublin suburbs had their back gardens converted into vegetable allotments, while the construction of potato pits to store potatoes and protect them from frost over the winter was commonplace.
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