The search for the Good Life
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Land grabs and grow bags: The plot to feed the City of London
The City of London is growing fruit and vegetables in grow bags in vacant building sites to tackle the increasing demand for allotments.
Capital Growth reaches 1052 spaces!
Capital Growth has now created 1052 food growing spaces!
The Green City – London’s secret urban gardens uncovered
I went along to the Open Garden Squares Weekend in London to see how neglected urban space is being used for growing food in the City.
Middlesbrough sows seeds of self-sufficiency
People in Middlesbrough are pioneering the grow your own movement by growing fruit and vegetables in skips, parks, back alleys and roundabouts. 1000 volunteers from local schools, care homes and hospitals have helped build new community growing spaces as part of the council’s 3-year project ‘Grown in Middlesbrough’. The scheme hopes to increase the amount … Continue reading
NSALG will fight to defend allotments
Secretary of the National Society of Allotment and Leisure Gardeners Donna McDaid says they were “surprised” to find the legal protection of allotments on a list to be scrapped during the government review into reducing “unnecessary burdens” on local authorities. She says the statutory duty of councils to provide allotments must remain otherwise “the foundation of … Continue reading
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