Food growing takes off in Belsize

What a weekend! The Transition Belsize Food Group and I helped one of the housing estates in Belsize to start a gardening club. We took over some disused land and turned it into a community garden for food growing. This is how the plot looked at the start:

And this is what it looked like while we were working:


Rain? What rain?


By the end we'd cleared the site, put in composting facilities, planted a plum tree and some fruit bushes, and built a path out of all the rubble we found in the site. As you can imagine we were pretty pleased with ourselves! That's me below with Jane, Linda and Debbie of the Hancock Nunn House gardening club:


And me, the plum tree and Jane Lawrie, a permaculturist, who guided us through the day:


For more see the Transition Belsize website.