A COMMUNITY food and flower garden is being set up in Heaton by a Newcastle university student, who aims to make use of the concrete streets and empty backyards to grow vegetables and other plants. Jacob, a 31-year-old Ecology and Conservation student at Newcastle University, estimates that there is around […]
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Demand for North East allotments soars throughout pandemic as gardening enthusiasts seek solace in lockdown
ALLOTMENT waiting lists have tripled in some areas of the North East with “massive demand” for “safe havens” during the pandemic. Over 3.5 times as many green-fingered enthusiasts in Darlington have applied to the waiting lists of three allotment sites in 2021 (274) compared to 2018 (76). The highest average […]
Newcastle allotment holders devastated after greenhouses smashed and sheds broken into
DEVASTATED allotment holders in Newcastle are “shocked” and “heartbroken” after vandals broke into sheds and smashed greenhouses. Many of the members of Greenwater Pool Allotments group in Jesmond Vale have carefully tended to their plots for many years, but this recent act of vandalism is the worst they have seen. […]