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Just sprouted in the QED Virtual Potting Shed ...
Growing on in the QED Virtual Potting Shed ...
- THE ALLOTMENT: Its Past, Present and
Future - A conference organized by the Rural History Centre,
University of Reading, UK Saturday 31st May, 2003.
- Alric Avenue Allotments in New
Malden - now with added photographs.
- News of allotment regeneration from Bath
and NE Somerset Allotments Association (Updated December 26, 2003)
- Brassicas and Beyond: the new and
updated story of Bristol's Sturminster Road Allotments, complete with 38
colour illustrations (Posted January 4, 2004)
- News of TV Crews at Uplands Allotments.
- A link to the Allotment section of the GreenSpace
website (formerly the Urban Parks Forum), showcasing examples of good
practice in allotments management.
- Revised details of courses for every gardener at Capel Manor College in London, while Tom Cole
offers his Advice on Allotmenteering and his
Monthly Gardening Corners for May 2000, June/July 2000
and August 2000.
- CityHarvest - food from London for London
- details of a city-wide Festival of Food Growing in London held in the
Autumn of 1998. How did the CityHarvest Festival go? Find
out here! And for a summary of the CityHarvest report by Tara
Garnett, click here.
- A visit to Community Farms and Gardens
in Melbourne, Australia, in the company of Eileen Poulton from Dartford Road Allotments.
- Hull and East Riding Allotments and
Gardens Council - seeking your advice on promoting allotments, and
offering their Rules, which could be useful as a model for anyone
wanting to set up an allotments council or federation in their own area.
- A proposal for a Japanese Cultural Garden
from the Brighton Unemployed Centre Families Project.
- June's Allotment: June Nicholls wins a
prize for her well-kept plot ...
- Notes on the First Meeting and Second Meeting on "The Future For
Allotments" hosted by the Local Government Association. Plus QED's Brief for the LGA on "Allotments in Local Agenda
21" and Brief for the LGA on "Devolved
Management for Allotments" (Final Versions). UPDATE: Now available on- line: the
Local Government Association's Advocacy Document
for Allotments.
- News of National Veg Barbecue Day (June
19, 1999), sponsored by Gardening Which? and the Vegetarian
Society.
- Olveston Parish Allotment and Gardeners
Association - a self-managed parish site on church-owned land.
- Good ideas on allotment regeneration from the Stockport Metropolitan Allotment Garden Association.
- News of the Christian Aid Garden
at the Royal Horticultural Society's Hampton Court Palace Flower Show
(6-11 July 2004) highlighting Christian Aid's Trade Justice Campaign.
- An inspiring and updated story of allotments regeneration
from Sturminster Road Allotments Association in
Bristol - now with photographs.
- Uplands Allotments Association,
Handsworth, Birmingham - the largest allotment site in Britain! There
are details of the Arts and Allotments Project
held at Uplands on August 1, 1998 including poems from Samantha Neale, John Neale,
Louise Francis, Anon.
and Dartford's own Mick Suter, plus the
plaque marking Uplands Allotment Association's
Fiftieth Year, and Free seeds from
the Uplands Allotments Seedsaluv range.
- Whitfield Valley Community Allotments
Project: An inspiring scheme to regenerate a partially derelict
allotment site in Stoke-on-Trent, based on a partnership between the
City Council, the Directorate of Health Promotion, and local residents
from the Fegg Hayes district.
Potted on from the QED Virtual Potting Shed:
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