Allotments are back in fashion! - preview
Judy Kirby recalls the Allotment Committee’s work from 1926 to 1946 and Molly Scott Cato looks at the current Stroud Cooperative Agriculture project
The four ‘C’s – climate change and credit crunch – have created a serendipitous situation in which people are turning to small plots of land to feed themselves The lure of fresh food, free from chemicals, has begun to catch on again, after decades when development robbed communities of the land that had earlier provided them with fruit and vegetables
Quaker historian Ted Milligan predicts that the next generation will be profoundly affected by such changes ‘There is a terrific excitement in young people for this’, he says ‘Where I used to see dozens of allotments run over with weeds, now they are almost all in use’
Judy Kirby
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