If you become a keen grower, and need more space, you might consider taking on an allotment.

Food growing and sustainability
Don't forget that, as well as being fun, growing your own food is a healthy, productive and sustainable activity. Why not get a group of friends together to run one or several allotments, approach your local school, health authority, or housing association and ask them to help you develop a food growing project?

Food growing fits the government's criteria for sustainable communities, so it can be part of a Local Agenda 21 strategy.
Local Agenda 21 grew out of the Earth Summit at Rio de Janiero in 1992. It is a commitment by many of the world's governments to working towards a way of living that doesn't rob future generations of the beauty and resources of the earth. Most local councils have a Local Agenda 21 or an Environmental Initiatives officer who may be interested in helping you to set up food-growing project.

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