Community questions

Me and my little boy love digging in the garden we both get some exercise, fresh air and of course get very very muddy!! But best of all we are both learning how to grow our own food, to be self suffient something I feel is going to be a big part of how we will live in the future! I have filled my garden as much as I can but I reallly need more land, sadly trying to get an allotment in this area...

 Well if you are a small holder in my local Norfolk or surrounding counties, take care. SBV - a disease thought to have made its way over inside midges blown across the channel - has been causing havoc with the sheep farming community and has the potential to spread to other animals. SBV or the Schmallenberg virus is responsible for lambs being still born or with a defect causing them to...

Welcome to the birth of Pixham Potager. I think we could be unique in being the result of a local restaurant project that has created a community kitchen garden. Last summer, Transition Dorking organised a "Pop-up" restaurant in a local church using primarily local food from allotments. At the end of the meal, two diners casually mentioned they had a walled kitchen garden in need of restoration...

As our "allotment" is at the bottom of our garden (spoilt i know), we dont have a ready made community of fellow growers. Do you grow/ help/ imagine a bit of the Goode life? live in or near LEicestershire? fancy starting a group online which might meet up face to face occasionally? Just because its winter, doesnt mean us growers are in hibernation... some of us still have plots to dig over, and...

Having just joined I thought I would add a few links to the projects I am involved with in Mid Wales. Housing Coops in Mid Wales, I was a founder member of Chickenshack Housing Cooperative and more recently I helped launch Permanent Housing Cooperative in 2010 to develop permaculture plots and projects, low impact housing and sustainable livelihoods for our members in Mid Wales. As a group we...

Wow life has been so hectic and we have an incredible abundance in the gardens right now,  Also new members joining.  We have a wonderful new website www.glastonburyhealinggardens.com and also a facebook page: So you will have no difficulty keeping up with everything that we are doing and also adding your own comments and experience.  We are all in this together, the world being...

- cleared and part terraced (sloping site) now finished terracing, put up shed and water butts, pruned apple tree...

Help us to do-it-ourselves by joining in the crowd funding of our next research project: http://bit.ly/dE44AR. There are some great benefits for those that can donate £10 or more toward project costs.   

As Bootham Stray allotments in York celebrates becoming one of the latest growing spaces to receive a Lottery grant to transform their allotments, Big Lottery has announced new opportunities for allotment and community garden sites in Scotland to access Big Lottery funding for improvements, with the new Community Spaces Scotland Fund. Community Spaces Scotland Fund The Lottery Fund has recently...

National Allotments Week will be held this year from 8th to 14th August 2011. The week is run by the National Society of Allotment and Leisure Gardeners (NSALG) and National Allotment Gardens Trust (NAGT). The aim is to promote allotments and show the public and councils how important they are to communities. Show your Council you Care (about Allotments) NSALG and NAGT hope that National...