Local to Leominster

Growing our Own


The aim of this on-line directory is to help you find Herefordshire produce you already know about and introduce you to some you don't, either direct from the producer or from some of the fantastic shops and markets within the county.

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landshare

A brilliant scheme has been set up by Hugh Fernley-Whittingstall at River cottage called Landshare.

With allotment waiting lists massively over-subscribed and people right across the country keener than ever to grow their own fruit and veg, the aim for Landshare is to become a UK wide initiative to make British land more productive and fresh local produce more accessible to all. But all of this depends on people like you registering their interest now.
This project is now live and you can sign up on the website,browse for land or offer land,read blogs and much more.As featured on the River Cottage Summer series now on Channel 4.

For more information about Landshare and to register click here.

Please register your interest and lets get Leominster Growing. If you would like to added to the waiting list for an allotment in Leominster please contact the Town Clerk on 01568 611734 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it


Food Waste- What we can do. 

Every year in the UK we throw away a staggering one third of all the food we buy. Love Food Hate Waste – a campaign from WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) – highlights the fact that wasted food is a waste of money and a major contributor to climate change. And the most frustrating thing is that most of what we throw away could have been eaten – it's not just peelings, teabags and bones. The Love Food Hate Waste website provides delicious recipes to make the most of the food in our fruit bowl, fridge and cupboards, handy hints for storing food, surprising facts on what can be frozen and much more... there is something for everyone, whether you are a keen cook and organiser or more spontaneous. Visit Love Food Hate Waste for more ways to love food and reduce our food waste.


Reduce food waste - Love Food Hate Waste

Composting

Composting is the natural process that turns organic waste from the kitchen, home and garden into a valuable fertiliser that will really benefit your garden. It's nature’s way of recycling its bounty. Composting returns anything that has lived and died back into the earth; producing the material which plays an essential role in maintaining a healthy soil. Although composting occurs naturally in the garden, adding extra compost to your garden by recycling your kitchen and garden waste can improve the structure of the soil and help feed the life in the soil.
Anything that has lived and died can be composted, including kitchen waste such as vegetable peelings and leftover food scraps; garden waste such as prunings and lawn clippings; animal waste such as horse manure; even dust from your vacuum and packaging waste such as cardboard eggboxes and the centres from your toilet and kitchen rolls!
Compost, as all gardeners know, brings fertility to the earth - it improves structure, holds water yet improves drainage, breaks up clays yet binds sands; it is one of the essential building blocks of good soil. Some 60% of all household waste is organic and can be recycled. If you just ‘throw away’ this waste you are adding to the millions of tonnes per year that is simply left to rot in landfill. As this waste decomposes its potential value is lost forever, whilst pollutants escape into the air and seep into the water. 
          

 
 
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