{"id":63904,"date":"2017-08-17T13:42:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T06:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/carrots-and-communism-the-allotments-plotting-a-food-revolution\/"},"modified":"2017-08-17T13:49:36","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T06:49:36","slug":"carrots-and-communism-the-allotments-plotting-a-food-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/carrots-and-communism-the-allotments-plotting-a-food-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrots and communism: the allotments plotting a food revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nOur workers\u2019 co-operative community market garden partners with the council to ensure that locally grown, healthy food is affordable and accessible to allRu Litherland works at OrganicLeaOne cold grey February morning, back in 2001, we turned the key and opened the creaking gate on to a world that could not have been further from the built-up street just strides away. As far as the eye could see, scattered sheds teetered on the edge of a tidal wave of dense bramble. Halfway down the hill, just as the path disappeared into this surge, were plots 20 to 24: our new allotments. Whatever else, this was going to be groundbreaking stuff.Driven by the vision that more food can and should be grown in London, we set up OrganicLea on a derelict allotment in Chingford, east London. The Lea Valley, which for centuries used the river to transport food down the Thames, from Saxon settlers growing celery in the sixth century to Italians growing cucumbers in glasshouses in the 1950s, was a good place to start. Continue reading…
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