Under new government proposals (Hort Week 12/3/2010), it may soon be possible for allotment holders to sell their ‘excess produce’ for cash. This might seem like a fairly modest proposal, but it could easily destroy the entire system of allotments that has worked so effectively for so many years. Allotments...
Matthew's article about the National Trust's inability to maintain its own central London allotment makes me wonder if the drive for more growing space in towns and cities hasn't missed an opportunity. Workplace allotments , on the face of it, have a lot going for them. While spare land is...
You can see an image of the Sarpo's, including the new introductions, in a blogpost I wrote following the 2009 open day at the Sarvari Research Trust. To say they are in 'a different league', is spot on. Anyone interested in developing their gardening (or indeed their food growing business...
Nothing wrong with surplus going to local charities. Mine goes to family and friends. I guess most allotmenteers are leisure gardeners and/but I see a lot of produce going to waste (and I mean a lot!). The current economic climate is such that some could do with more cash in the pocket - hence the propensity...
Geoff You appear to be stuck on 199 ! I like your idea of Celebrity Dig Allotmenteer. I'd watch it, but then I used to watch Gardeners World. I just feel that most things in the UK now, are becoming over-complicated, don't you? Surely, Allotmenteering was one of the most basic, simple, enjoyable...
I read some of these posts with sadness sometimes. I'm not sure who is to blame, we the people or them, the self important bureaucrats. Which side of the fence do you lean towards? Come on Guys, it’s a bit of land for Agnes or Fred to grow a few veggies on or maybe an ornamental or three. Maybe they...
Geoff - this might interest you: http://www.organiclea.org.uk/sellingallotmentproduce.pdf Allotment Gardeners Can Sell their Surplus Crop "There is however, no restriction on the distribution, by sale or otherwise, of a certain proportion of the plotholder’s crop. Geoff Stokes, secretary of the...
Greg I agree that the Royal Family have a lot of land and, I suspect, they let some of it as allotments. However, many people mix up the private land belonging to the Royal Family with the Crown Estate. The latter belongs to the government and is managed by the Crown Estate Commissioners. Again, I would...
Phil I tend to agree with your suggestion. However, I understand that a few years' ago the government were to look into allotment law and one of the issues was allowing allotmenteers to sell their produce. As I understood it then - in law allotmenteers are there only for recreational gardening and...
