Allotment boost
by Sarah - January 18th, 2012.Filed under: allotment.
MORE families will have the chance to join the ‘grow your own’ revolution after an allotments’ society received a cash boost.
Heage Road Allotments in Ripley has been granted £3,500 to redevelop a patch of ‘unmanageable’ and ‘overgrown’ land on the site thanks to the Big Lottery Fund.
The 900-sq yard patch is currently being covered in tonnes of topsoil, which will open up the popular allotment site to six more local families by March 1