Community Garden
You are invited to join this project to help us to grow (and eat) fruit, vegetables, plant trees and generally offer nature a helping hand in a local landshare project. We are in the early stages of this project and we are looking for people who want to join in. All we need is some enthusiastic people who want to get involved in some outdoor work for as little or as much time as they wish- we are planning an organization meeting in the summer. You don’t have to know anything about gardening but will learn fast!
We are fortunate to have HogCo onboard who help community projects get started and provide anything from legal tenure to training, for example ‘beekeeping’ or ‘herb and vegetable growing’. We are in the early stages now so you could have a large impact on the direction of the project. All support would be appreciated. If you want to get involved, please send an email to consumerpower@hotmail.co.uk or see our newsletter for more details.
Garden Share
This is a simple but brilliant idea. It aims to put owners of unloved, or underused gardens in contact with people who want to garden and grow their own food, but don’t have access to a space.
It’s a win-win situation, the gardener gets access to a piece of land (bypassing the ever growing queue for allotments) where they can grown their own vegetables and fruit. The garden owner gets to look at a well maintained vegetable plot and share in some of the produce, as well as being part of a sharing/community initiative.
How it works - The gardener and garden owner meet and discuss individually the best way to share the space and lay out some guidelines about what this involves; e.g. access, the sharing of produce, and importantly emphasise that it’s not a free garden service and the plot is only for growing produce.
If you are interested in either offering some space, or in using some for growing, we recommend you go to the website http://www.landshare.net. This is a national website set up by Channel 4’s Hugh Fearnly-Whittingstall. It allows you to find out about the concept as well as:
- Browse what is available in the Exmouth area by map
- Offer some space from your garden
- Register your interest
- Download draft legal agreements
- Contact potential sharers to discuss your interests
The website explains how to set up a landshare agreement so that everyone understands each other expectations. It recommends that you set up an agreement that includes a clear statement of what each party expects in terms of access (when, how often, what part), what is grown there, water and tools availability and personal liability - the latter can be covered by joining the local allotment association insurance scheme at a very small cost. More guidance on this is on http://www.landshare.net/help/.
Unfortunately we don’t have a “local organizer” in TTE for gardenshare at the moment, but if you would be interested to help in offering to do this, do contact us by emailing us on info@transitiontownexmouth.co.uk or speak to someone at one of our meetings. This could just be someone who has experience of garden sharing who can guide people through registering on the landshare website.
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