Hackney Allotment Society

Links

Gardening

• Garden Organic Research and promotion of organic gardening, farming and food
• National Society and Leisure Gardeners Promotion, protection and preservation of allotment gardening
• Soil Association Certification and campaigning for organic food and farming in UK
• BBC Gardening Comprehensive site with emphasis on flowers and garden design
• East London Organic Gardeners Active group of gardeners on London’s leafy eastern fringe
• Pesticide Action Network Pesticide free gardening tips
• Museum of Garden History Historic implements, garden with courtyard cafe and Admiral Bligh’s tomb
• Hoxton Manor Allotments Chingford allotment site with plotholders from Waltham Forest, Hackney, Haringey and further afield
• Seed to Plate A commercial site with useful resources for growing crops in restricted spaces

Food

• London Farmers’ Markets Find a local farmers’ market (except Stoke Newington)
• The Food Commission Campaigning organisation for safe, wholesome food

Local

• Growing Communities The organisation behind the Stoke Newington farmers’ market
• Hackney Society Attempting to conserve the best of Hackney’s built environment
• Derelict London Abandoned allotments along the River Brent
• St Mary’s Community Centre Provider of spaces for our monthly meetings and AGM
• Abney Park Cemetery North Hackney’s green lung with exciting weeding opportunities