News
Summer 2010 newsletter
Summer issue of the Society newsletter (PDF size 1.1mb). Saving the honey bee, the new Chair,
local food growing, annual site visits…
Compost
The East London Food Recycling Partnership is offering free compost to local allotments. Phone 020 8986 5608 or email for details.
Next Committee Meeting
The next committee meeting is at 19.30 on 4th August 2010 at New Church Rooms, St. Mary’s Church, Spensley Walk, N16.
Waiting list update
As at 01/12/2009 the next 23 numbers for a plot offer are 1059, 1084, 1104, 1105, 1116, 1119, 1120, 1132, 1140, 1142, 1145, 1146, 1150, 1152, 1154, 1156, 1158, 1162, 1163, 1174, 1175, 1179 and 1187. There are approximately 200 members on the waiting list for plots.
Contaminated manure
Powerful industrial herbicide found in manure blights allotment crops. Read the full story here.
Allotments in the news
- Forget Eton, put your child’s name down for an allotment now. 40 year wait for a Camden allotment.
- It’s more work than you think. Confessions of a former allotment holder.
- National Trust releases land on some of the best known country estates in Britain for up to 1,000 allotments.
- Follow progress on a newly cultivated organic allotment.
- In June 2007 a committee member was fortunate to be invited to a friend’s dacha on the outskirts of Lviv in the west of Ukraine. The country’s fabled fertile soil and the need for self-sufficiency gives rise to a landscape of intense cultivation.
- ‘A lot to lose: London’s disappearing allotments’ – a new report from the London Assembly highlights the scarcity of allotments in the capital. The report also contains very comprehensive maps of London wide allotment sites for those with the inclination to search for a site outside the borough.
- A Hackney resident photographed these remarkably plush Danish allotments on a visit to her homeland in summer 2006.
- Banish the blues with an allotment and a packet of seeds.
- Well it sounds easy enough. A thriving allotment in just thirty minutes.
- Everyone is doing it. Composting tips from a new allotment holder.
- How to tend five allotments and have time to write about it.