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Cllrs Ruth Polling, Greg Foxsmith and Terry Stacy at Highbury allotment |
Growth spurt: New veg patches planned
ISLINGTON is launching a new scheme to encourage residents to grow their own food.
The council is promoting and funding food growing projects and new allotments. They range from an abandoned car park in Holloway – which will be turned into 15 brand new allotments by the end of the year – to grow bags, which are already sprouting tomatoes at some of Islington’s community centres.
Some 40 projects are being planned, with vegetable patches on housing estates, schools and in parks. Councillor Ruth Polling, Islington’s executive member for parks and leisure, said that allotments are valuable to residents and demand for them is high.
She added: “In a borough as densely populated as Islington, where many people don’t have their own gardens, breaking through tarmac to create new allotments is fantastic.
“The experience of putting your hands in the soil and growing your own vegetables is so satisfying, particularly for people living in the middle of London. We want to open that opportunity to as many people as possible, so as well as creating allotment plots we’re also introducing vegetable patches on estates and in schools.” |
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