Touch the Soil News #1937 (Feature Photo – Allotment Garden – (CCA SA 3.0 unported, Allotmenteer) In Scotland, many garden plots are provided by government. In the Fife area of Scotland, there are over 2,100 people on the waiting list and the Fife Council is wrestling with what to do. This story puts things into…
Touch the Soil News #1889 (Feature Photo – Allotment Garden – CCA SA 2.0 Generic, Allotment Gardens by Alex McGregor) Community Growers in the small nation of Ireland (5 million people), have become alerted that their gardening plots are not secure from development. A new movement has started to ensure that growing allotments are secure…
Touch the Soil News #1426 (Feature photo – German Allotment Garden – Public Domain) Allotment gardens are of European descent. In the past, governments often times made plots available for the citizenry to grow food. The plots were generally much larger than a community garden plot in the U.S. European allotment gardens are often large…
