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Fiann Ó Nualláin on why you should allow your crops to bear fruit and keep next year’s lunch in a lunchbox.

Growing you own food is a great reward and a pleasing pastime that culminates in the joy of harvest — be that the potatoes you will lift today for this evening’s dinner or the blackberry jam you made last month to sustain you across winter with a summery tingle on a cold dark morning.

Nothing beats growing your own — only eating your own.