{"id":139979,"date":"2023-10-22T12:15:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T05:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/looking-back-on-years-of-happy-growing-on-the-allotment\/"},"modified":"2023-10-22T12:28:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T05:28:54","slug":"looking-back-on-years-of-happy-growing-on-the-allotment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/looking-back-on-years-of-happy-growing-on-the-allotment\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking back on years of happy growing on the allotment"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nCelebrating the anniversary of the Observer\u2019s organic allotment is a chance to consider friends made, flowers grown and a community createdIt\u2019s 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\u2019d 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…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Celebrating the anniversary of the Observer\u2019s organic allotment is a chance to consider friends made,...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-ApJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131268,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/halloween-brings-back-happy-memories\/","url_meta":{"origin":139979,"position":0},"title":"Halloween brings back happy memories","date":"October 30, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Ghosts, pumpkins and cakes\u2026 Halloween is a time to look back at the many happy years we\u2019ve spent growing togetherThe night before Halloween, and my thoughts return to the past. 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