Allotments: the art of the vernacular
Everything about allotments points to the anachronistic and the anarchic. The idea of non-wealthy citizens having access to land within a city. The freedom from serfdom. The notion of people growing their own food in the 21st Century in a city filled with food from all over the world and all sorts of 'food-like' products. In a society filled with planning regulations, a place where vernacular architecture rules with anarchistic freedom.
It is these features that make allotments a place of future ferment of ideas going beyond the status quo. They are a foci of nascent urban agriculture. A location for those enmeshed in concrete and tarmac to reconnect with the earth, physically and tangibly, mud and cuts and with soil covered food to take home freshly plucked from the beds. A chance to experiment, to forge an independence, to directly know one's food and to express one's individuality; every plot manifesting a different expression of everything that allotments symbolise.
Above, all, allotments are a place to relax, recuperate and rejuvenate. A places of slow time and no time.
It is these features that make allotments a place of future ferment of ideas going beyond the status quo. They are a foci of nascent urban agriculture. A location for those enmeshed in concrete and tarmac to reconnect with the earth, physically and tangibly, mud and cuts and with soil covered food to take home freshly plucked from the beds. A chance to experiment, to forge an independence, to directly know one's food and to express one's individuality; every plot manifesting a different expression of everything that allotments symbolise.
Above, all, allotments are a place to relax, recuperate and rejuvenate. A places of slow time and no time.
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Trail of destruction left after a recent storm
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The resident slow worm
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Antlers
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Winter on the plot
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A newly made Robin
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Artichoke flower
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Autumn Maple
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Ducks at dusk
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Shed rose
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Summer chillin
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summer fire
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The shed guardian
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Random allotment objects
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Most unique raised beds ever.
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Leek flower with hat
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Work to do
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Autumn apples
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Crow and plane
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Windmills
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The folds of the Red Cabbage
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Scarecrow Witch.
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Folds
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Wood burner
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Crisp cabbage
