Private enterprise will increase the number of available allotment plots, but they will cost much more than their council subsidised cousins
… Private allotment company gets mixed welcome The Ecologist | 5th January 2010 News Allotments Gardening Food And Farming … will increase the number of available allotment plots, but they will cost much more …
Concerned about the state of your food? Here are some ways to tackle the problem at root - from community gardens to animal welfare
… for those who do not have access to allotments. Garden Organic is a UK organic … more about the London Orchard Project here . Allotments The Allotment Regeneration Initiative supports …
You can't buy a seed unless its strain has been expensively registered. But you can swap them with fellow gardeners, helping food growing and biodiversity to thrive
… list below) tend to be smaller events held at allotments or community centres. Most take … Sunday after the success of the first swap. Allotment-less, she has long been interested … with - experienced herbalists, small-holders, allotment growers, tree nursery owners, …
Your soil will love you for it, wildlife thrives in it and weeds are deterred by it. Here is the what, why and how of green manure
… thirties' in America and decided that my allotment's soil was indeed very, very precious. It is unlikely that our allotments will become dust bowls, or our back … really enjoy a layer to hide amongst on my allotment, and they have thanked me by …
Summer in the garden is beautiful, but hauling gallons of water from the kitchen tap to your beds is neither fun nor sustainable. Here's some tips on how to drought-proof your plot
… that I don't have to make that trip up to my allotment to water it again. In this hot … if they don't get a good soaking. I have two allotments and in hot weather they need at … I put grass clippings straight down on my allotment and surrounding water hungry plants. …
City workers and allotment farmers needed to reverse dwindling farm workforce
… | 9th April 2010 News Food And Farming allotment.jpg City workers and allotment farmers needed to reverse dwindling … likely to come from city dwellers and hobby allotment farmers who could gradually move on …
Sylvia's office gets a new, green employee, and she begins to hatch plans for changing her ready-meal-eating, email-printing, energy-burning colleagues...
… on the Council’s waiting list for a community allotment. In essence, Neal is the polar … ‘It’s one of the main reasons I’m getting my allotment sorted’ Neal confesses, ‘so I don’t … says Neal, ‘maybe I’ll invite them to use my allotment. It’s only down the road’. ‘Why …
Strapped for garden space needn't mean being strapped for home-grown veg, as an experienced London balcony gardener reveals
… windows. Window food 'You don't need an allotment or garden to grow your own food, … Read on... GREEN LIVING A lot of fun - why allotments are good for the soul Allotments are good for the soul and enjoying …
Armed with just a good idea and big dose of enthusiasm you can transform a bleak area into a mini orchard. Plus, the best way to approach a station manager...
… DIFFERENCE CASE STUDY: turning farmland into allotments Chyanhall Allotments in Cornwall has provided a …
A is for allotments; B is for brocolli; C is for climate change... and U is for urine. 'The Alternative Kitchen Garden: an A-Z' is a companion for both inexperienced and expert gardeners
… Veg alternative-kitchen-garden.jpg A is for allotments; B is for brocolli; C is for …
Sylvia scores her first eco success - persuading her sceptical boss that heating an unoccupied portion of the office is a terrible waste of resources
Greening my office: I got them to switch the heating off! Sylvia Sunshine | 9th July 2010 Comment Society Work Business Office Heating Energy Greenhouse Gas Emissions CO2 thermostat.jpg Sylvia scores …
This extract from the new book <em>Homemade Kids</em> offers some inspirational ways you and your kids can get stuck back into local life
… zones with parking at the town edges, allotments and recycling facilities - although … in Yorkshire is turning itself into one big allotment) - Off-road footpaths and cycle …
The story of how a group of dissatisfied residents pulled together, got funding, and created a blooming community garden where the work, and the rewards, are shared
… that they would use to grow on. 'Unlike most allotments, it was crucial to us that the … How to create your own edible landscape With allotment waiting lists more than a decade …
Drawing from 40 years of composting experience, Nicky Scott's latest book will inspire confidence in beginners and give new techniques to veteran composters
… compost has a variety of end uses, from allotments to flower beds, house-plants and …
In the run up to the British general election, Pat Thomas says the various party manifestos are starved of sound policies on food security and sustainability
… and (to varying degrees) to more access to allotments. Labour and the Greens also commit …
You don't need a smallholding and a meadow to be a budding apiarist - a few sensible precautions will let you fight honeybee decline with a hive in your own backyard
… placed, notify your landlord, neighbours or allotment manager to obtain approval and make …
Cities are at a crossroads - 'eco urbanists' want efficiency and artificial ecosystems; conventional designers want to maintain the best bits of our current urban spaces. Can they co-exist?
… places of democratic participation (gardens, allotments) with the old squares and avenues …
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Misunderstandings and scepticism around schemes that pay countries to protect their forests are rife, with fears that without proper policing it will be a magnet for organised crime and corruption
Fears of corruption as REDD forest-protection schemes begin Lynn Morris | 13th October 2010 News Forest Redd Deforestation Natural World tropicaldeforestation.jpg Under REDD-type forest protection …