The new television series of River Cottage is scheduled to start on Thursday 12 November on Channel 4. Watch out for a new Landshare story as Hugh meets some people who have found an extra benefit to landsharing.
Also, a new major landowner announcement coming soon!
We are pleased to announce that there have been 2 more listings added by the National Trust seeking interest from growers local to Polruan in SE Cornwall and Wollacombe in Devon. The number of plots at those sites are expected to be confirmed next month.
Links to listings in full post.
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?
"So, what should you do if you want to grow fruit or vegetables but have no garden, and the allotment waiting list goes twice around the block? A garden-or land-sharing scheme may be the answer."
I agree!
Read full post for links.
"The whole concept of Landshare is revolutionary"
Hear more about Sir Julian Rose's participation and also of Councillor Sarah Frances Bevan, Vice Chairman, Bath and North East Somerset Council on BBC iPlayer, link in full post.
You can save yourself a lot of money and apparently grow much better produce by saving your own seed instead of buying new every year – the idea is that the plant adapts to your ground conditions so you get your own perfect variety instead of trying to grow a universal one. Read full post for more info.
It really is past the end of summer now and there are a number of things you can be doing with the last of your gluts. Read full post for what has been going on in my kitchen and some of the recipes that I have been trying out.
Scotland's first annual local food gathering "Building the Local Food Network" is being held by One Planet Food, Sustaining Dunbar, Soil Association Scotland and Transition Scotland Support this Saturday and Sunday 24th and 25th October.
Welcome to our updated blog where you can find much more information, including the latest on the National Trust’s pledge to make 1,000 plots available to the Landshare community by 2012.
So far, there has been one site offered by the National Trust on Landshare – at Minnowburn Community Garden near Belfast in Northern Ireland. They are now up and running with 25 plots (with the potential for more plots in the future).
With a 1,000 target, there will be much more coming to Landshare very soon and updates will be regularly posted here about what locations may be included and when the listings will go live, so that you have the chance to apply to be one of their Growers.
There are a huge variety of ways that you can landshare - from sharing back gardens, to company staff plots, to council growing schemes, to community supported agriculture and many more.
If you're interested to know how other people have started these kinds of landshares - how they got their council or company on board, or how they legally set up a CSA - then information will be posted here soon.
