allotments

Explore urban ‘food-farms’ this Saturday

Did you know Regent’s Park boasts an allotment these days, alongside its boating lake, open air theatre, sports pitches and various cafes? The central London Royal Park started growing its own this spring and the kitchen garden is looking a picture right now. The tomatoes …

Reflecting the demand for more local food, Cultivating the Capital, a report launched yesterday by the London Assembly, highlights the need for planners to make more space for agriculture in Greater London. Encouraging, coming close behind of the announcement of funding to make Boris’ 2,012 …

Since the recession scuppered upmarket plans for the development of ‘Noho Square‘ on the site of the demolished Middlesex Hospital a desolate hole has gaped in Fitzrovia. A year long campaign by locals to make the space available to the community, however, looks finally to …

Image of vegetable sculptures author’s own “…Play out of doors as much as you like. It’s a big place and you may go where you like and amuse yourself as you like. Is there anything you want?” as if a sudden thought had struck him. …

A man was shot in Acton on Tuesday. And dumped at Stamford Brook. Drive carefully: the car in front might be one of the 13% of London drivers who aren’t insured. Damon Albarn is being touted as creative director for 2012. British Waterways are facilitating …

Image showing allotments by SallyB2 Celebrating ‘normal’ people in art is this summer’s big thing: we’ve got the plinth and now flowerbeds in the five Olympics-hosting boroughs for artist Joshua Sofaer’s Rooted in the Earth. There’s been much amusement and curiosity about who has been …

Continuing the push to get 2,012 food-growing plots of London land in time for the Olympics, British Waterways is offering up unused stretches of canal-and-riverside. We have 100 miles of waterways in the capital so that’s a lot of potential for potatoes and peas. We’re …

Whaddya know – you spend years teaching kids how to cross the road, and then the little buggers grow up, get into gardening, and try to drown you. Apparently that is the fate that awaits Tufty if he strays on to certain allotments in Waltham …

If you need to give your Glastonbury wellies a trial run before the inevitable mudslide next week then get yourself along to the the Manor Gardening Society allotments from 1pm today. You remember these plucky allotmenteers. They fought a brave fight against eviction from their …