Chyanhall Allotments in Cornwall has provided a successful model for farmers and landowners to generate income while providing a grow-your-own space for the community
… CASE STUDY: turning farmland into allotments Dorienne Robinson | 6th October 2009 Activism Allotments Farming Local Food David Hicks Chyanhall Allotments Food And Gardening Case Study …
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 …
An innovative Lottery-funded 'Scrumping Project' in Brighton and Hove is bringing rare apples back into the community
… local food from the long waiting list for allotments. 'We are looking to reach out … that are for everyone.' This translates as allotment schemes, legalised … and more, as listed below: • Allotment Projects Increase the number and …
Livestock ranching on US public lands underlies a vast range of environmental problems - so should we welcome 'conservation buyouts' of ranches that own grazing leases? No way, writes William Williers, because the lands are already ours, and to 'buy' them is to support and perpetuate a $1 billion per year fraud against the American people.
… placed millions of acres into 'grazing allotments'. Over ensuing generations politics … of market demand. Laws typically mandate that allotments be grazed, so that if someone were … BLM alone has 155 million acres in grazing allotments , and the US Forest Service grazes …
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, …
From Slough to the Moulsecoomb Forest Garden & Wildlife Project in Brighton, Warren Carter is a radical food grower on a mission to transform the lives of troubled youngsters. Jan Goodey meets him
… he tills. And he tills a fair bit - nine allotments-worth with an itinerant group of … of the warmest days of Spring is a treat. The allotments lie on a south-east facing, … bench and look on as lunch of meat balls with allotment parsley are fried up in the fire pit …
Local authorities around the world are going pesticide-free following an initiative by a small town in Canada 25 years ago, writes Keith Tyrell. Now the movement is coming to the UK, with campaign groups setting up in towns, cities and rural communities to keep pesticides out of our streets, parks, playgrounds and allotments.
… out of our streets, parks, playgrounds and allotments. Nearly 25 years ago, the small … and drove the policy through. If you're an allotmenteer, you may also be able to get your allotment association to declare itself …
Grow It Yourself is a popular community organisation with a vision of bringing people together in a sustainable and healthier way through organic food growing. Now it has plans to launch further afield in the UK
… Food And Farming Gardening Urban Agriculture Allotments Health Permaculture How To Make A … in gardens and community groups, in schools, allotments and online where they can share …
Networks of seed savers across London are sowing a brighter, fairer food future.
… window boxes. In reclaimed parking lots and allotment plots. This is an urban seed … or in my country", says Olcay Colak, an allotment holder and seed saver from South …
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 …
More than £800,000 has been raised towards the cost of setting up a unique farm - complete with green houses, polytunnels, irrigation system, woodland, orchards and a shop - that could help meet the capitals' future food needs
… DIFFERENCE CASE STUDY: turning farmland into allotments Chyanhall Allotments in Cornwall has provided a …
This weekend, at the Manchester International Festival, an initiative will be launched which explores ways and means of sustainably producing food in urban environments. Kat Austen reports....
… of the lucky ones with access to a garden, an allotment, or even a balcony. But for many …
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 …
When Tom Fisher applied for commoners' rights to graze a goat and take firewood from his local common in Bringsty, he had little idea it would lead him on an eight-month delve around England's labyrinthine Commons Act
… and soul-affirming spots GREEN LIVING Allotments are not for building on Paul …
Yellowstone Park is home to America's last pure-bred wild bison, writes George Wuerthner. Yet the Park's management is planning to kill around a thousand of these precious animals this winter. Ostensibly it's to protect cattle on public lands near the park from brucellosis. But bison have never been known to transmit the disease to them. The real reason is to keep all the pasture for livestock.
… is extremely small. All public grazing allotments are devoid of cattle at this time, … food. Most of the public lands grazing allotments near West Yellowstone, as well as …
Alan Schofield has run a vegetable box scheme for almost 30 years and is a veteran of the Soil Association. He talks to the Ecologist about why he set up the Organic Growers Alliance - and how it now complements the work of the larger certification body
… full certification. Similarly with community allotment projects, etc. It is important to be …
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 …
The US Environmental Protection Agency was on the defensive last week in its hearings to determine whether glyphosate, the word's number one herbicide, causes cancer, writes Carey Gillam, as it stood accused of giving preferential treatment to industry representatives, excluding evidence of cancer links, and refusing testimony from a world expert epidemiologist.
… ranged from 5-15 minutes. Knott said speaking allotments were assigned based on how much …
A pioneering community-based hydroelectric energy project in the Brecon Beacons is a blueprint for how green energy can provide more than just low-carbon power...
… organising litter-picking, has set up 46 allotments and is spending thousands of pounds …
The pioneers behind Apple Day - Sue Clifford & Angela King of Common Ground - have recently published a handbook on community-owned fruit orchards. Here they give the Ecologist their top tips and advice on getting started
… onto rootstock and are being grown on in an allotment for future sale. Here is an example …
You don't need a garden to grow your own fruit and veg. If you're a budding horticulturalist with no space to swing a trowel, here are some creative - and sometimes bizarre - ideas from around the world
… the UK it is too often only associated with allotments. At one end of the scale we have …