Paul Crossley

National Allotment week started today. Since its inception we have been regular shoppers at Bath Farmers Market. Buying locally produced food, non-GM, wholesome and fresh. One of the mainstay storeholders is Chris Rich and he opened up his farm for visitors to see where and how the food is grown. Whilst there bumped into friends Nic Rattle and Roger Symonds who are keen allotmenters in Combe Down.

Whilst there brought some lettuce plants - so back home planted them out - sowed some autumn lettuce and planted out some other lettuce plants. This week on Thursday we also have an interesting lecture 'Providing for the People' on allotments and housing in Bath.

One of the pressures in Bath is providing allotment space for the growing demand from residents who want to have allotments.

PS - if you follow the web link to the farmers market the Bath info is wrong. Our market is weekly (not 1st and 3rd Sats as stated) and has been for many years. I have reported the error to the web team.