Prime Minister Mia Mottley has been praised for her administration’s attempts to respond to the spiralling cost of food, energy, and other necessary household and consumer items.For the thousands of vulnerable households and even those in the middle-class, the assistance could not have come any sooner.Many would readily admit that the pressures caused by a combination of inflation, unemployment, anxiety from two years of the pandemic, and concerns about social instability, represented an unhealthy mix.In her unique approach to addressing the public on difficult conversations, the Prime Minister reminded us of the need to re-embrace the traditions of backyard farming.Given the number of local gardening groups on social media, it is clear that there is a kind of kitchen garden renaissance emerging. Whether this is out of necessity or pure pleasure, we are not certain.But this does not take away from the worthy and necessary actions taken by Government. The truth is that something had to give.“As I said from the start, we recognise from early that there will be no knight in shining armour coming to rescue us, coming to rescue Barbados. We understand that our survival rests in our own hands and that if we are going to feed ourselves through this crisis and beyond, we will have to create the environment,” the Prime Minister emphasised.
