Comments on: Portion Control: the Insatiable Appeal of Allotments https://ecosalon.com/portion-control-the-insatiable-appeal-of-allotments/ Sun, 29 Nov 2015 15:51:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.25 By: Mike Sowden https://ecosalon.com/portion-control-the-insatiable-appeal-of-allotments/#comment-2504 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:25:43 +0000 http://ecosalon.com/?p=9960#comment-2504 Adjoining allotment, eh? Fruit trees, eh? Are you willing to confess up to any scrumping? 😉

(http://ask.metafilter.com/58105/Does-scrumping-happen-outside-the-UK)

I dearly wish I had signed up for my own allotment years ago – then maybe I’d have a chance. However (and it’s a big however) I currently have a back garden in my rented property with a goodly portion of arable land in it. So come summer, I’m getting a-planting.

As cool as the National Trust’s input is, I hope it’s completely overshadowed by a new national refocus on allotments, using the digging up of barren wastelands in the middle of cities, bought up by local authorities and offered for a very small fee to those on low incomes. That’s my hope.

]]> By: Sara Ost https://ecosalon.com/portion-control-the-insatiable-appeal-of-allotments/#comment-2505 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:33:31 +0000 http://ecosalon.com/?p=9960#comment-2505 What a cool program!

]]> By: Caitlin Fitzsimmons https://ecosalon.com/portion-control-the-insatiable-appeal-of-allotments/#comment-2506 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:29:35 +0000 http://ecosalon.com/?p=9960#comment-2506 My friends have an allotment. They had to clear away a lot of rubbish but they were enjoying beautiful fresh vegies all last year. The adjoining allotment has beautiful mature fruit trees so it’s a very pleasant place to sit and enjoy being outside – many Londoners live in apartments and don’t have back gardens. I enjoyed visiting them for a summer barbecue in the allotment last year.

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