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We're always told peas are easy to grow - and they can be. But timing the sowing and protecting from other creatures that want to eat them first can be tricky for the beginner.
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There are people on the waiting list, and Ashford has a number of allotment sites which were allowed to become derelict years ago when there was little demand. Want to know the ins and outs of more allotments? Check our page by clicking HERE.
Write it on your calendar - Saturday 15th March! At 7.45 - 10.30 in the evening "Three Acres and a Cow" is the real story of our relationship with the land - a story of which allotments make up a significant and undervalued chapter. Allotments are our last link with our medieval ancestors, whose rights to graze their geese on common land and farm a few strip fields were gradually stolen from them over the centuries. EXTRACT FROM THE 'THREE ACRES AND A COW' WEBSITE
"Telling the history of land and food in Britain is always a multi-stranded narrative. On one side we have the history of enclosure, privatisation and the dispossession of land based communities; on the other we have the vibrant histories of struggle and resistance that emerged when people rose up and confronted the loss of their lands, cultures and ways of life. These multiple histories go largely undocumented in the literature of the times, often expressed simply as a hanging here and an uprising there, yet in the music and stories of the people they take on a different life. ‘Three Acres And A Cow’ connects The Norman Conquest and Peasants’ Revolt with the 80′s road protests and Occupy via the enclosures and Highland Clearances, bringing a compelling narrative to the radical people’s history of Britain through folk songs, stories and poems. Part TED talk, part history lecture, part folk club sing-a-long, part poetry slam, part storytelling session… Come and share in these tales as they have been shared for generations." On Wednesday 22nd January, Penny Winston (chairman) and Gilda Puckett (publicity manager) met with council officers to clarify and improve communication between allotmenteers and the council. The meeting was called by Julie Rogers (Strategic Customer Services Mangaer) but she did not attend, and the council sent Ann Davies and Eileen Law (both from Environmental Services) and Dean Spurrell, who is communications and marketing manager.
A number of areas were discussed, mostly concerning the council's (non) use of email to contact plotholders, the matter of posters, and the council's postal mailshots. Anyone who would like full notes of the meeting may email Gilda at [email protected] Ann Davies clarified that there will be only one mailshot this year coming through your letterbox, and this will be sent out with the invoices in early March. In this mailshot will come the show schedule, annual newsletter and everything else. PLEASE DON'T 'FILE IT IN WASTE PAPER BASKET' THINKING THERE WILL BE MORE LATER! There won't. This means, of course, that anyone having no access to email or this website will be rather poorly informed. Please make sure you talk to your neighbours and let them know what is going on! It is more important than ever that people with email register their email with the publicity manager. This will ONLY be used for allotment business and will be shared with absolutely nobody. If you are reading this, please let us have your email if at all possible! The only person who will have access to it is the Publicity Manager One thing that cropped up a few times recently is a confusion about the word "FORUM". This was used in the early days of the current system to describe the AGM of Ashford Allotment Society, and has come to be applied to the Committee of the Society. It has led to confusion with INTERNET FORUMS, which didn't exist way back then! It was decided that we would all stop talking about a "forum" at all, and use the words in the Society rules. This means ASHFORD ALLOTMENT SOCIETY ( made up of all the plotholders), and the COMMITTEE of the Society, made up of the site reps, the chairman, vice chairman, treasurer (LOL) secretary, bulk buying manager (Geoff), show secretary (Tony) and publicity manager (me, Gilda). "Hello everyone! The new rep is me, Vivienne Lawson. Hope to see some of you on Wednesday for the meeting."
Vivienne has one of the plots which is worst affected by the flooding problem, so fingers crossed they get it sorted soon. If you have a plot on the William Road site, you should have received Vivienne's contact details by now in the post. If for any reason you have not, please feel free to contact the website and we'll send them to you. Have you just recently taken your plot on? |
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