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NATIONAL ALLOTMENTS WEEK 9th–15th AUGUST 2021
National Allotments Week is an initiative started by the National Allotment Society in 2002 as a way of raising awareness of allotments and the role they play in helping people to live healthier lifestyles, grow their own food, develop friendships, and bolster communities.
This year’s theme for National Allotments Week is Plotting for the Future, celebrating the contribution that allotments and gardening make to a sustainable future.
Sustainability means meeting our own needs from existing resources without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Gardeners and plotholders have a big part to play in ensuring that resources are used with care and eco-systems are supported, protecting the land for future generations to enjoy. We can do this by using fewer chemicals in the garden, supporting a more balanced eco-system where natural predators will munch on those aphids and other pests. Creating your own compost from garden and kitchen waste or creating leaf-mould to use as a mulch will save you money and conserve water and nutrients
in the soil. We can also harvest rainwater rather than using mains water; thus, reducing the need for chemicals to produce drinking water and the energy needed to clean and pump it around the system. Gardening also enhances our mental and physical well-being, another important component of a sustainable life.
For more information, please see the National Allotment Society website.
www.nsalg.org.uk
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