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🗓️ 16 June 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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0:00.0 | There's the parsley for sure and definitely carrots I think I see then beetroot. |
0:19.8 | The vegetables you need in a usual kitchen garden, that's where our idea began, everything |
0:25.3 | you can sow in harvest from a kitchen garden. The village of Brozek in the far west corner |
0:33.5 | of Poland, just 82 families, a whitewash church and a fire station, where Dorota Gwavatska |
0:41.3 | and her friends were sorting vegetable seeds into kinds to send to Ukraine. The evening light |
0:48.2 | falls through wide open doors onto a row of yellow fire helmets and onto sacks, boxes, |
0:54.3 | envelopes of seeds, the receipts everywhere. Dorota and Brozek leapt into action when |
1:01.3 | they saw with horror, the Russian army invade Ukraine. We sat together, it was my husband's |
1:09.7 | birthday and thought we have to do something and since we're farmers we thought the best |
1:15.2 | thing to do is vegetables. You know in the 1980s there was nothing in Poland, we had nothing, |
1:20.8 | we survived only on our kitchen gardens so we thought you know what, we can do this, we |
1:26.9 | can do this and then we planned to send maybe one pallet load or two, you know we weren't, |
1:32.9 | we weren't sure how it would go. I'm Monica Whiplog and on assignment this week we're |
1:40.2 | in Brozek, hearing about a homemade farmer to farmer network which has grown fast to help |
1:46.4 | feed Ukraine, where farms are bombed, supply routes cut and the commercial growing regions |
1:52.8 | in the south under Russian occupation. This is the less visible front line in the war, |
2:00.0 | the crisis in agriculture that has hit Ukraine and farmers' war on will soon hit the world. |
2:11.5 | We called the administration, they weren't very helpful so we turned to our parish priest |
2:16.1 | who put it on Facebook and then somebody out of Goodwill put a link to us on large groups |
2:22.3 | of say 15,000 people and suddenly we're getting donations from all over the world. France, |
2:27.8 | Germany, we're collecting in Italy, America, the United States. |
2:38.6 | The priest, he was just picking up phone calls about orders and shipments and he was like, |
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