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...
I was saying this over a year ago: "But why stop here? I have said before that there is a business opportunity for hard pressed farmers to create a new business model. I am sure that a farmer, with a large chunk of land on prime growing soil, would easily get assistance from a local authority, or...
How about this - Everytime Tesco or any other large retailer builds a new store, they contribute to a National Allotment fund - and backdate this requirement... Or this! - Ask the National Lottery for funding or the RHS or English Heritage or The National Trust. Or this! - Approach the likes of B &...
A rumour that the Garden Media Guild was preparing to 'drop' one of its most sought-after awards, the Environmental Award, because 'everyone is a green writer now' caused more than a few raised eyebrows among gardening communicators. Eyebrows reached their limits when the Guild's...
