A number of our plotters have used this service. Thanks go to Gill on Plot 64 for the original contact. Gill can give you more info if needed.
If you give it a go, please let us know how you get on.
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Karolina Gombert, a research assistant with the, “Enhancing Food Security” Project has been on-site interviewing plotters this week.
The project is funded by Scottish Government and run by the Rowett Institute, University of Aberdeen and The James Hutton Institute.
The project is investigating:
- perspectives on the values, motivations and commitments of people who grow food for personal consumption
- the extent to which locally grown food can contribute to food security at community and household levels
- cooperation between food producers and consumers
- barriers to and facilitators of local food growing.
The researchers hope that their findings will lead to policy recommendations on community-led interventions and programmes to encourage local food growing and greater food security for our communities.
Karolina and her colleagues will provide information on their findings when the project reaches its conclusion and welcome contacts from interested parties.
I hope all our plotters have been enjoying the festive season. Here’s wishing you a very happy and successful growing season in 2017.
David Penman – plot 55 has saved a large quantity of his own parsnip seed and is happy to share it with other plotters. The variety is Gladiator. Anyone interested in some seed should contact David.
Stuart
Some recent news from Pat at the Council:
Please find information detailed below via Adrian Atkinson, Representative, Holburn Street, to share with the plotters at your sites.
You may be aware that the Council has started to roll-out mixed recycling facilities and this includes some things that couldn’t previously be recycled locally – including ‘plastic pots, tubs and trays’. I’ve checked with the ACC waste team and this includes plastic plant pots and trays so they can now be recycled rather then put into rubbish for landfill. The new service is currently being rolled out for premises that have on-street recycling/rubbish bins – i.e. flats and tenements, with individual houses to follow at a later date but it does mean that you might have a mixed recycling bin nearby (as we do in Ferryhill) that you could use. Check this link for more details.
http://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/waste/waste_recycling/waste_onstreet_mixed_recycling.asp
Regards
Pat
Pat Wilson
Project Support Officer
The TAMS – The Allotment Market Stall Project team have been in touch to tell us that we contributed more than ever to their collections and sales this season and so earned a gross dividend of £381.62 which means our GFAA funds benefit to the tune of £286.21 net after the usual deduction to support the TAMS operations. Needless to say, this makes a great and regular contribution to our funds for essential site maintenance. Huge thanks are due to all who contributed surplus produce over the year.
Our Allotment Association at Garthdee Field has been short-listed for a grant from the Skipton Building Society. The final award is by public vote. We hope to use the grant to improve facilities in our Community Garden and so bring the benefits of plotting to youngsters and adults with disabilities and health issues. If you could follow this link and vote for GFAA we’d be very grateful.
https://www.skiptongrg.co.uk/…/garthdee-field-allotments-a…/