Allotment wait reaches all-time high

Four years ago, Joy Lewty, 62, from Garforth, Leeds, was handed a pack of seeds. That simple gesture set in motion a chain of events that would change her life.

Reader Steve Watkin from County Durham explains why new skills and sustainability make growing such a joy

The theme for this year’s National Allotments Week, from 11 to 17 August, is Wellbeing. Five women reveal how their lives have changed for the better by spending time on their plot

Campaign urges government and councils to ramp up community food growing, reports Ian Hodgson

Home to a veritable ‘Noah’s Ark of species’, thanks to never being ploughed, sprayed or fertilised, our churchyards are a sacred haven for flora and fauna

Andrew Oldham is busy bringing together vegetables and flowers to make the most of a sloping site