Property News · October 22, 2023

Looking back on years of happy growing on the allotment


Celebrating the anniversary of the Observer’s organic allotment is a chance to consider friends made, flowers grown and a community createdIt’s our anniversary. When we broke soil on the Observer Organic Allotment. The plan at first was simple: for Observer Magazine people to work and garden together outside the newspaper office and hours. Only if they’d like to, of course. There was a small gathering of staff from the editorial and advertising teams, plus, Howard, his children and others, too.The going was tough at first. The plot was in poor repair. Its tenant had been unwell. We dug out a skipload of rubble and bindweed and wheelbarrowed it away. We put in 10 tonnes of topsoil, a steaming lorry load of manure. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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