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A previous question, finally answered: LandShare
http://landshare.channel4.com/ - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s latest initiative to to make British land more productive and fresh local produce more accessible to all.
Your thoughts are appreciated, as always.
My daily crawl of the Internet for gardening and garden-sharing schemes finally paid off today; two such schemes outside of GardenLend being launched - in Totnes and The United States of America.
Garden Swap
By Homegrown Evolution(Homegrown Evolution)
Urban gardens are not only fun; they support low-carbon food production, create economic development, inspire healthful eating, build community, create opporunities for education, address watershed health concerns, create productive …
Homegrown Evolution - http://www.homegrownevolution.com/
The Totnes Garden Share Scheme on the BBC
By Rob
Rather than waiting for allotments to be forthcoming, Garden Share is a great way of unlocking land for growers, especially when it is accompanied by the gardening training we are currently runnning. Garden Share is run by TTT with …
Transition Culture - http://transitionculture.org
At last, the penny is starting to drop and people are realising that in these increasingly financially straitened and environmentally perilous times that co-operation is the only sustainable way forward.
Please join GardenLend at http://find.GardenLend.co.uk and help both yourselves and your neighbours grow nutritional, quality foods locally.
The BBC have a video of the Totnes scheme on their site at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7668344.stm and the Totnes scheme is online at http://totnes.transitionnetwork.org/gardenshare/home
Now that we can truly said not to be lone voices in the gardening wilderness and that such schemes actually do work, why not join us? Membership is free and the usual rules of posting apply - basically good manners and respect for each other. We do also have a shop on the site for all your gardening needs.
Frustrated gardeners and garden owners - now is your chance to take the plunge and to help transform not only your lives but that of those around you and - in time - make for a better planet.