Amateur gardeners and Allotment Associations are again being called on to further successfully raise the profile of allotment gardening by supporting National Allotments Week.

National Allotments Week is now promoted by the National Allotment Gardens Trust in partnership with the National Society of Allotment and Leisure Gardeners. The initiative, which this year runs between the 9th and the 15th of August, aims to promote awareness of allotments, both locally and nationally.

National Allotment Gardens Trust wishes to encourage as many gardeners as possible to support the initiative, and to promote the social benefits of allotment gardening which include benefits to health, education and community well-being. The initiative is also designed to highlight the benefits of allotment gardening/culture to councils across the United Kingdom who are at present not providing or not presently able provide this invaluable community resource.

To help National Allotment Gardens Trust stage this event they are asking allotment societies and private associations to open their fields to the public and to arrange school/group visits to allotment sites or exhibit their produce.

By promoting allotment gardening, says the NSALG, the public will see the benefits of raising vegetables, fruit and flowers for both eating and exhibiting. This, the Society believes, will help to promote gardening, vegetable-growing and consumption as a healthy pursuit and lifestyle.
 
For more detail visit www.nagtrust.org/.

Editor, Third Age.