With allotment waiting lists massively over-subscribed and people right across the country keener than ever to grow their own fruit and veg, the aim for Landshare is to become a UK wide initiative to make British land more productive and fresh local produce more accessible to all.
But all of this depends on people like you registering their interest now.
Landshare brings together people who have a passion for home-grown food, connecting those who have land to share with those who need land for cultivating food. Since its launch through River Cottage in 2009 it has grown into a thriving community of more than 55,000 growers, sharers and helpers.
It’s for people who:
• Want to grow veg but don’t have anywhere to do it
• Have a spare bit of land they’re prepared to share
• Can help in some way – from sharing knowledge and lending tools to helping out on the plot itself
• Are already growing and want to join in the community
It began with the tiny seed of an idea – and it’s growing and growing.
Growing
Not all of us have access to space for growing. Yet there’s loads of UK land that’s under-used or forgotten. Some of it could be cultivated for vegetables and fruit, or even bees, chickens and other animals, which is where Landshare comes in.
Sharing
There are more than 100,000 people on allotment waiting lists in England alone. That’s a lot of people looking for land to grow things. Do you have a spare bit of garden you’re not using and you’d like to share? Interested in getting some free fruit and veg in return? Or maybe you have acres and dream of a community farm?
Landshare arrangements can range from an individual sharing a patch of their garden to a national body such as the National Trust creating allotments for many people at grand sites across the country. Land is also shared by schools, companies and communities.
If you’re inspired by the idea of landsharing and want to find out more, take a look at the Landshare case studies to see how others have done it. If you do decide to share your land, here’s how to get started.
Visit the Landshare website.
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asked by gaylek onHi there, we are developing a section of outdoor space at one of our family centres in Birmingham to include an outdoor oven / kitchen workspace / bbq area so that groups of our young people can learn about health and safeety / food hygiene and customer service skills, as well as providing an area of outdoor space that families can use for leisure purposes - group bbq's, parties, community days etc..What i need is some advice on how to develop the outdoor space to include a small allotement area , an outdor oven / bbq and any advice or tips on how best to do this. Ideally, it would be great ot have soemone in the birmingham / west midlands area who could pop in and see the sapce for themselves and make some recommendations?! Any help gratefully recieved! Thank you! Gayle
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asked by crowden onIn 2009 an Allotment Scheme was set up by you in 2009 with the backing of Channel 4 Can you let me have details please as I am looking to backing an initiative of this type.
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asked by ddodbob@yahoo.co.uk oni have for the past 4 years had a allottment in torquay and became steward of torbay allottments we have over 150 people on our waiting list which goes back 3 years i want to lobby torbay council to release some land whitch belongs to them and has been vacant for over 30 years i want to incourage young and old people with or without familys to grow there own prouduce and enjoy it at the same time i was looking for some guidence of how to go about starting this up its something i feel very strongly about i have watched your programs on river cottage land share and admire all your work you do in your campains . your r.disley.
I live in Ashford and after 3 long years have finally been given an allotment. I'm told there are 300 people waiting at this moment - so I felt like having a party!! I was shocked to hear several areas of land that was previously allotments and still open council land was shut down in the 90's due to lack of interest. The priviso being to reopen it to allotments if need arose. But this has not been done. The council mows the middle and lets the edges run wild with brambles and claims a lack of money to fence it in and turn it back to allotments - several areas have now been built over. How can we get the council to reopen this allotment land? Any advice is welcomed!
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I should very much like to get in contact with the team at River Cottage for some help and advice. We are just embarking on a community project, which will involve livestock, bee, veg and orchard, and have been awarded RDPE funding.
Any help that you can give us on starting this project would be gratefully received, especially around shares and time apportioning.
Thanks in advance
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