Chris of our "Growing to a tee" fame reports great success with his plot this first season - a first prize for his runner beans, second place for his tomatoes and a third prize for his potatoes.
Have any other Landsharers scooped any best veg prizes?
Landsharer, George, has kindly sent us in an update as to how he is getting on.
Read full post to also see photos of his progress.
Abundance is a project to harvest the seasonal glut of local fruit like apples, pear and plums. Each year hundreds of fruit trees go unpicked either because people don’t notice them, may not be physically able to harvest them or there are just too many fruits at one time.
Don't give up! This map shows all the landshare matches so far. Despite our initial technical teething problems, people have been able to get landsharing all across the country.
It is amazing the impact that the weather can have on a garden. Read full post to see Chris' photos of how much his garden changed in just 1 week.
More Landshare matches from other parts of the UK were featured in episode 4 of River Cottage Summer's Here - read full post to see the video clips and to read about them and many others.
The average golf course is 50 hectares, an enormous spanse of land that is increasingly becoming harder to justify for golf alone. Whilst the Redditch borough council is one example of a council considering turning the Pitcheroak golf club into community parkland, one landsharer decided to be more pro-active...
If you have found a landshare match or are otherwise growing your own and would like to share your experiences, why not write a blog?
Landshare is in the current series of River Cottage Summer's Here on Channel 4.
Read full post to watch the video from episode 1 and look out for further mentions in the series - on Wednesday nights at 8pm.
Have you ever seen a piece of what appears to be derelict land in your neighbourhood that might be suitable to be put to growing use? Keen to find out if you could get permission to use it for landshare?
Read full post to see examples of landsharing at work.
Congratulations to the people involved in the first 'matches' on Landshare.
