News
2011 AGM
NEW Minutes of the Society’s 2011 AGM now available.
Autumn 2011 newsletter
Autumn issue of the Society newsletter (PDF size 147kb). AGM 2011, tightening of neglected plot rules, invitation for new committee members, wildlife consultation…
Next Committee Meeting
The next committee meeting of site representatives will be at 19.00 on 28th February 2012 at Stoke Newington Library, Church Street, N16.
Risk to Church Walk allotments – latest
The recent planning application which would have plunged two of the plots into perpetual shade, and had a detrimental effect on light accessibility for other plots on the site has been refused. Thanks to everyone who registered their views with the Council but we will need to remain vigilant.
Compost
The East London Food Recycling Partnership is offering free compost to local allotments. Phone 020 8986 5608 or email for details.
Waiting list update
As at 27/09/2010 there are 147 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
- Turn your balcony into an allotment.
- 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 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.