Event to celebrate start of the growing season at allotment
CAMPAIGNING for a national right to grow is to be highlighted at an event celebrating the start of the growing season.
Transition Loughborough, seeking solutions for a low carbon Charnwood, is inviting volunteers and visitors to its biodiverse allotment for a Good to Grow event on Saturday 27 April at King George Road.
It’s one of a week of national events coordinated by Sustain, an alliance for better food and farming and supported by Incredible Edible Loughborough, spearheading the local drive for a right to grow.
The dedicated town volunteers transformed a council–owned former community garden on the corner of Cambridge Street into a productive fruit and vegetable patch offering food for free.
Coordinator of the afternoon Martha Worsching, who works with both local groups, said Good to Grow promotes transforming local food systems to better serve their communities, the environment and the local economy.
“Visitors can join us to show their support between 2 - 5pm; just go through the gate on King George Road and follow the site track to our plot,” said Martha.
“Please bring some food to share.” Right To Grow is gaining political momentum for a law obliging all local authorities to keep a register of land that could be used for growing people could apply to with Hull the first council to recently implement one.
The waiting list for allotments in England has grown by 81 per cent in the last 12 years as more than 150,000 people seek a place to grow fresh food.
A spokesperson for Sustain said: “We invite gardens to celebrate the new growing season by opening their doors to volunteers and community members to help out in their local garden, while supporting and enjoying all of the valuable community spaces around the UK. Good to Grow is a great way to get the garden ready for the growing season.”