Green For Life

This August, get your children involved with National Allotments Week, and show them the importance of growing your own food

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Everyone can incorporate fruit and vegetable gardening in some way into their lives, however small, and this year the National Allotment Society want to see people doing just that as part of their annual allotment week. Taking place August 13-19, this year’s theme is living and growing, and aims to highlight creating your own food.

‘Growing at home can help people on allotment waiting lists hone their horticultural skills and raises awareness for children of how and where their food is produced,’ says Di Appleyard, mentor, marketing and PR co-ordinator at The National Allotment Society. The society aims to protect, promote and preserve allotments by working alongside allotment associations, federations and local councils.