CAN it be that the present shortages and restrictions on purchasing vegetables and spices from abroad will prove a blessing in disguise for our farming community, leading to a resurgence in home grown produce?

Along with the onset of Brexit and stronger links with our Commonwealth of nations, who grow many varieties of our food requirements, this could once more make us self-sufficient and provide links to many more exports in return.

Just like during my parents’ era with the rationing of the war years, residents can grow their own with allotments, conservatories and greenhouses.

With peaches grown and nurtured in Cornwall, rhubarb in Yorkshire and tripe and onions in Lancashire, variety is the spice of life.

Kenneth Bowker, Vesper Walk, Huntington, York