Allotment Project bursts into life

Our allotment project is designed to offer local families the opportunity to get 'hands on' experience in growing and cultivating the land and it continues to be a recreational pleasure for many different people.

 

The sessional supervisor is a lady with many years experience of keeping an allotment and a great concern for families who have special needs.

 

There is also a flower and wildlife area enabling local children, who are city dwellers, to learn about nature and wildlife in an inter-active and visual setting.

 

We now have three families with whom we are working and an older couple have joined from the local community recently and are enjoying their little plot.

 

A retired couple who lived locally joined us last year and have a very productive plot, enjoying the fruits and vegetables of their labour.

 

Students from Africa have planted their corn seed and are hoping for a good crop. Last year the frost killed it off before it had a chance to mature.

 

During half term, a group of local children came and visited and spent time drawing and colouring flowers and plants before enjoying digging in the soil, finding some fascinating creatures and looking up names and pictures in the gardening reference books! – This aptly proved the point that gardening really is for everyone.