Post by huswyf on Aug 22, 2006 9:49:18 GMT
Not having a TV, we took a chance ordering this on a recommendation from one of the Allotment forums.
It's a very good programme, over five hours spread across three DVDs following the progress of allotment holders over a year. Some are new to keeping an allotment and some have been at it for over half a century!
The programme does a lot to dispell the myths that allotments are for Grumpy Old Blokes who grow a glut of sprouts to torture their family or are obsessed with competitions. There are a lot of young people taking on allotments and many people who want an outdoor space to escape to and a chance to know what goes into their food.
You meet several artists who take inspiration from allotments, a young man who uses his space for performance art as well as growing food, one man who has a vineyard on his plot and people who keep livestock.
Organic methods are heavily featured together with some community schemes, LETS schemes and permaculture methods.
Recycling and re-using are covered with people taking rubbish from one place and turning it into useful stuff for the allotment (Wombles, eat your hearts out!). There are lots of hints and tips to make life easier.
The monthly programmes make it easy to go back and see what is happening and what you need to be doing throughout the year.
It also helps that the presenters and the people featured are allotment holders and not celebrity gardeners with books to promote or products to push.
If you want the DVD you have to order it directly from the production company here:-
www.allotment.info/
Wassail
Karen
It's a very good programme, over five hours spread across three DVDs following the progress of allotment holders over a year. Some are new to keeping an allotment and some have been at it for over half a century!
The programme does a lot to dispell the myths that allotments are for Grumpy Old Blokes who grow a glut of sprouts to torture their family or are obsessed with competitions. There are a lot of young people taking on allotments and many people who want an outdoor space to escape to and a chance to know what goes into their food.
You meet several artists who take inspiration from allotments, a young man who uses his space for performance art as well as growing food, one man who has a vineyard on his plot and people who keep livestock.
Organic methods are heavily featured together with some community schemes, LETS schemes and permaculture methods.
Recycling and re-using are covered with people taking rubbish from one place and turning it into useful stuff for the allotment (Wombles, eat your hearts out!). There are lots of hints and tips to make life easier.
The monthly programmes make it easy to go back and see what is happening and what you need to be doing throughout the year.
It also helps that the presenters and the people featured are allotment holders and not celebrity gardeners with books to promote or products to push.
If you want the DVD you have to order it directly from the production company here:-
www.allotment.info/
Wassail
Karen
