--- In smallholding@..., "Karen" <karence@...> wrote:
>
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3061659/Black-farmer-questioned-by-police-th
> ree-times-in-a-week-for-stealing-food.html

I'm not quite sure of the slant of their piece. Are they suggesting that ethnic
minorities have no culture of farming/smallholding? (which is rather insulting
given that Africa and Asia are full of people subsisting on small holdings,
and the resurgence of allotment gardening is probably due to the large number
of South/East Asian people taking them on, certainly hereabouts) Or that land
ownership is difficult for Afro-Caribbean people, probably true given the
historical
difficulties in obtaining mortgages and business loans faced by this community?

As the supermarket branding of the original 'black farmer' relies rather heavily
on this supposed 'unique-selling-point', I have a feeling it might have been a
exaggerated just a tad by his PR person and the media.