Grow your own
Britain’s home grown growers
The encroaching issue of climate change and a larger media spotlight on the pioneers tackling it and raising awareness of it, means that sustainability is on the radar more than ever. There has been a rising trend towards people looking for more sustainable ways to live with people seeking fulfilment and enrichment through non-material means, in an attempt to be economical with the environment as well as with their financial resources. There has been a huge rise in the grow your own movement with The Telegraph reporting in June 2009 that there are 100,000 people in Britain on an allotment waiting list with an average wait time of 3 years 2 months. Organic produce, garden share schemes and growing your own food are on the up with TV chefs championing these emergent movements raising the profile of sustainability throughout the UK. TV programmes like the Channel 4 ‘My Dream Farm’, and ‘Jimmy’s Farm’ have brought country living to the masses by packaging it as entertainment and making quitting the rat race seem like a more obtainable dream for the city dwelling masses.
In this Grow Your Own series we hear from people living the dream, and find out what they have to say and what top tips they have for people eager to get green fingered.
My allotment adventure – the beginning
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