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Welcome to the 'Digging for Health' blog, a record of the development of a social enterprise project supported by Engage UnLtd and Age Concern, Dorchester, UK. We have been allocated a community allotment (thanks to the Volunteer Centre, Dorset), which is very overgrown and run down. This blog will provide a history of the development of the allotment, as we return it to a fully functioning and productive resource that aims to not only produce vegetables but also raise social capital (what's social capital?...read the blog!). This blog belongs to Fran Biley. This views expressed here are his, and he takes full responsibility for them. They may not represent the views of the organisations that are mentioned here.

Friday, February 18, 2011

Publicity Day!

Today Bob and I met Edward Griffiths from the Dorset: The Dorset County Magazine (click for the link) who will be writing an article about our allotment and project, to be published in May 2011. Edward writes about allotment keeping in the magazine, see here for a past example. Otherwise, the magazine is one of those rather posh ones about country life, coastal walks, restaurants, country walks, that kind of thing.

Bob, on the left, talking with Edward Griffiths,
probably either talking about couch grass, or the geological qualities of the soil.



Clip boards!


After the meeting Bob ran off to buy a load of wood, to delineate the allotment perimeter.

The day was very overcast, almost foggy. There is a very nice rhubarb plant shooting up right in the middle of the plot. Surrounded by couch grass.

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