Page 16 - ALG Issue 4 2022

book reviews
snippets
National Allotment
Society AGM 2023
The next AGM will be held on the 10th
June 2023 at Woodland Grange Hotel, Development & Conference Centre, Old Milverton Lane, Leamington Spa CV32 6RN.
Please see letter that came with this magazine, and NAS website, for details.
The NAS want your Christmassy allotment photos for our official Christmas card!
This year we would like to challenge our members to take the perfect allotment shot to grace our Christmas 2022 greetings card.
The snow may not have fallen yet so we are happy to accept images from last year when the competition didn’t run.
Please send 3 images to marketing@nsalg.org.uk by the 15th November 2022. The winner will receive their own supply of Christmas cards with 2 runners-up receiving a gardening book each.
We were sad to hear of the passing of Steve Clements in September 2022.
Steve served as a NAS regional representative for the Southeast for many years and made an important contribution to the society.
Our thoughts are with his family at this time.
Gardening to Eat: Connecting People and Plants
By Becky Dickinson ISBN: 1526757206
This inspiring and informative book takes the mystery out of gardening and reveals how to grow an array of fruit and vegetables using simple, organic techniques.
Packed with fresh ideas for turning home-grown produce into delicious, nutritious meals, you’ll find heaps of no-nonsense recipes created for real people with busy lives and healthy appetites.
Turn your home-grown crop into leek and mushroom pizzas or sunshine ratatouille, topped off with a slice of strawberry and almond roulade. Use up that blackcurrant glut in some berry ‘nice cream’ or whip up a savoury crumble with squash and stilton.
No fads, no fuss, no fancy ingredients, just real, honest, ethical food. With a passion for connecting people and plants, Gardening to Eat brings the garden into the kitchen. For people who love food and love to know where it comes from.
Attracting Garden Pollinators
By Jean Vernon ISBN: 1526711907
This is a friendly, accessible, information packed guide to gardening for and with pollinators.
Pollinators are in trouble, but our gardens
and allotments can help. Our green spaces
represent a vast, varied ‘nature reserve’ packed
with plants rich in nectar and pollen to sustain these delicate creatures.
This book explores the role that pollinators play and how we can all do something to help attract and support them. Learn which vegetables are best for bees, explore companion planting and use your newfound knowledge to support pollinators. From butterflies (and their caterpillars, with host plant information) to surprising pollinators (moths, wasps, beetles, flies and hornets) and of course including honeybees, hoverflies and bumblebees, you gain insight into their fragile existence, lifecycles and their vital role in the food chain and the natural cycle.
The Best in Market Gardening & Regenerative Agriculture Tools Suppliers of:
Jang Seeders Terrateck Tools Paperpot Transplanters Broadforks
Neversink Farm Tools Quick Cut Greens Harvester Blackberry Lane Tools
And much much more..
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