Allotments

Yeah unfortunately or fortunately we didn't run the risk of starving during WW2 so allotments never happened here.

There are community gardens all around the place though. Perhaps this site needs to have a directory of all of the community gardens in the country!

We dont have the same Coronation St housing style here in NZ, so people tend to look to their own sections. Here on Waiheke we have four community gardens and a public orchard underway and in various stages of development. And we are scheming a thing called "The Farmer Brigade" as a way of getting land that is in public and private ownership, into productive food growing.

Hi, I was wondering whether we need a community garden forum on this website. I would love to see what other people are trying, and have a few specific queries. Cheers, Heidi

With the various infill of the standard section (quarter or fifth acre) into half size the need for allotments is being raised at Council level with some positive leads.  Nothing happening yet, but the wheels are turning in the bureaucracy to see if it could happen.  This is a long term project and the work behinds the scenes with council officers is needed before the sheeple will consider this an option.

We discussed this for Ashhurst the other day at a gardeners meeting.  A suggestion to use vacant ground for potatos, corn and pumpkin seemed to be an easy care solution.  Produce could go to the food banks and other needy and labour supplied by PD workers.  Still to investigate but it may prompt other activities.

From there we have some locations of public land identified for orchards and gardens or allotments.  A good place to learn about gardening in a communal way and take back the expertise to home gardens for personal use, while leaving the bigger public areas for larger land based crops.

Fingers crossed on these suggestions.

I/we are very keen on supporting this as a whole , due to the fact that we have little time for maintaining a garden whilst we work abroad. But here is a better idea, people could use and transform our yard, although not that large a section, as well as keep an eye on it for us while away.... food for thought there, i will get back to this page once discussed with the better half in my life