John Soulsby discovered the joys of growing your own at just eight years old, when he cultivated his first dahlias. At 18, he ...

Christmas may be nearing, but don’t think you can sit tight just because the nights have drawn in – there’s plenty you could be doing on the allotment or vegetable patch now to give yourself a head ...

A gardener who has lovingly tended the same allotment for almost 62 years says he is "mastering it slowly". Growing vegetables has been a lifelong passion for Paul Rodgers, who started cultivating ...

Jen Blake is leading the project down at the allotment A charity helping homeless people hopes to expand its work at an allotment after receiving new funding. The Friary, which runs the allotment at ...

SOUTH Essex has become a little bit more green with a surge in residents wanting their own allotment. With national allotment week in full swing even more growers are venturing out and caring for ...

Coles Ground, overlooking Swanage Bay on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, was just another field on Christmas Day last year. By New Year this patch of National Trust farmland had been ploughed up and ...

It’s fantastic – I tell everyone I have my own health spa and gymnasium.” Irene Vidler speaks passionately about her allotment in Northcliffe Park, Shipley, which she has tended for years. It was her ...

An entry in Tablet Hotel’s Rethink Hotels competition, the Allotment is a totally new concept in hospitality: A hotel centered around food, rather than sleep. Dreamed up by Dean Moran, the prospective ...