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When the d/i/i project was first introduced, I started thinking about my own impact on food waste. During a visit later that day at Foodhall, I noticed their ‘Foodhall Garden’ and immediately made a connection to my own allotment plot. mais 387 palavras

Paul Farrow, August 2018

Any conversation with Rosemary is always a seamless blend of the past and present. Having known so many local people in the course of her long life, they often pepper her conversation in a manner which suggests I knew them as well as she. mais 1.438 palavras

There is no such thing as too many daffodils. There we were thinking we’d got the daffodils in ready for next spring and then of course we visit a garden centre and the next thing we know we have 30 new bulbs (mixed) to plant, LOL. mais 123 palavras

“Inclosure came and trampled on the grave

Of labour’s rights …”

John Clare 1793 -1864

When I viewed Yvonne Smart’s excellent plot on the St. Martin’s Allotments earlier this year, my curiosity about these productive green areas was awakened and since then I have found myself wondering how and when they had originated. mais 1.391 palavras

Two summers. Ten cities. Two hundred allotments. A different perspective on British urban life, viewed through the frame of soils and harvests and as many free raspberries as you can manage. mais 1.001 palavras