Local allotments for local people petition

floydmoon1

Please check out the below website and sign the petitionhttp://petitiononline.com/garden09/

This was started by a new canditate Roisin Lucey who is running for Mallow town council.
She is looking to get support to bring back a law making town councils have areas for the public to have allotments.

summer09

floydmoon1 wrote: »

Please check out the below website and sign the petitionhttp://petitiononline.com/garden09/

This was started by a new canditate Roisin Lucey who is running for Mallow town council.
She is looking to get support to bring back a law making town councils have areas for the public to have allotments.

Lovely to hear this, but I think FG new female candidate also had this reported in media sometime ago.
Where on earth are we going to find the land? I know how about the 4 million piece of land that the town of Mallow now are burdened with paying a hefty mortgage on due to her party colleagues objecting to building Social Housing scheme on or perhaps Roisin and her party colleagues intend on forgetting about this when they harrass the Town Management for not providing adequate facilities for the people of Mallow to grow their Vegtables on........................ And I thought it was only FF who had neck.

Belfast

why only Local Authority flats and estates?

What about private tenants or people in private housing without access to gardens.

in the current financial climate garden sharing schemes might be more doable.

Meet the urban sharecroppers

Want to grow your own organic fruit and veg but don't have the time? Why not find a neighbour who longs to garden but doesn't have the space? Tanis Taylor reports on the rise of garden-sharing schemes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/sep/04/ethicalliving.organics

Garden Share Scheme unlocking land for growers.
http://www.gardenplansireland.com/forum/about1862.html

Garden sharing schemes
http://www.environmentalgardener.co.uk/environews/article1944-Garden_sharing_schemes.html

Belfast

"Welcome to Landshare Ireland - bringing gardens and would-be vegetable-growers together.
In many Irish towns and cities, local authorities are failing to provide land for allotments, in spite of a legal obligation to do so; at the same time, those towns and cities have seen dramatic increases in population, many of whom have little or no access to private garden space. While lobbying our local councils to provide allotments and waiting for their response, we can take matters into our own hands ...

Landshare Ireland has one simple objective - to bring together those who have land or gardens, part of which they are willing to share, with those who do not have access to a garden or allotment, but who want to grow their own fruit and vegetables. This group is born out of an initiative by Channel 4 and the River Cottage but which sadly only operates in the UK."


rest of the details in web link below

http://groups.google.com/group/landshare-ireland