How does my garden grow?
October 28th, 2008
posted by Cptn
As James Stewart (that’s George to you) said in It’s A Wonderful Life of the Savings and Loan: “Bert, your money’s in Jim’s house!” Which caused consternation enough - fancy having your vegetables being grown in other people’s gardens! Well, that’s exactly what’s been going on in Totnes.
The gardenshare project in Totnes is part of the Transition Town initiative and has 19 gardeners without land rummaging around in other people’s gardens (with their consent of course).
The eager volunteers grow vegetables and flowers for the community in gardens that have got a bit too much for their owners.
It’s become such a success, that even Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall popped along to see how it was going.
Lou Brown, who runs the project from Transition Town Totnes, told What’s on South West: “Not only does growing our own food in Totnes mean fewer food miles, more local food, better food security, less packaging, cheaper organic produce, and better use of space to create thriving eco-systems, but it also creates an opportunity for making links in our community.
“Rather than waiting for allotments to be forthcoming, Gardenshare is a great way of unlocking land for growers, especially when it is accompanied by the gardening training we are currently running.”
For more details on Garden Share, visit the Transition Towns Totnes site. And for more on what the Transition Town Totnes people get up to, err, visit the site as well.
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