Horfield and District Allotment Association, Bristol
The chair of this association remembered a natural pond being on the site when he was a lad. This had disappeared but the land was still too boggy to use for plots. With funding from ARI a new, large (25 x 15m) wildlife pond has been created. It has been left to naturalise and has become a wildlife haven with frogs, toads, butterflies, lots of trees and shrubs (including a date palm, apple trees, hazel and elder), irises and waterlillies. There have even been visits from ducks, but no permanent residents yet. There are six primary schools within a mile of the site and they each endorsed the idea of creating the pond so that they could use it for environmental education. A jetty has been built to allow easy viewing. | ||||
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Thursday, 21 August 2008
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Chinbrook Meadows is going from strength to strength. Fifteen years ago they were down to 6 plotholders on a site of 95 plots. New plotholders were often disheartened by the amount of work needed to clear plots and also the heavy clay soil that they found underneath. The association have used the ARI grant to clear overgrown plots and ship in large quantities of sand and manure to make the soil more manageable. They have been able to let all of the plots they've cleared so far - and the new plotholders seem to be staying on!
Groundwork Leeds is working with a group of Sikh women at Ladypitt Lane allotments, who are growing food for use in their adjacent temple. The grant of £1,687 has been used towards the project's greenhouse and tool storage container.