You might find these websites interesting and informative:
- Allotment Forestry works with gardeners to promote the use of local woodland products in gardens and allotments
- The BBC's gardening website has a wealth of information on all aspects of growing plants and looking after your garden
- Cambridge Carbon Footprint’s vision is of a low-carbon society throughout Cambridge and the surrounding area that is sustainable, resilient and rewarding. They motivate and empower people to substantially reduce their CO2 emissions and help build low-carbon communities.
- The Food Partnership is a small organisation that promotes community strategies as good policy, looking at food issues of poverty, production and producer-supplier relationships. Examples include offering a model for teaming up people who have the land but not necessarily the time, skills and inclination to grow their own food as a small holder
- The Foodshare Network invites allotments to choose a local charity and set up an onsite 'donation station' for growers to donate surplus produce
- The Garden Organic charity began life as the Henry Doubleday Research Association in 1954. It has since been heavily involved in promoting the adoption of organic horticulture
- Gardeners Click is a community website for gardeners to ask questions, share tips, upload photos, suggest recipes, and much more
- Grow Zones is a community project bringing help and inspiration to your garden, wonderful food to your table and adding friendship and purpose to your life. A Grow Zones team clubs together to share skills, tools and produce to eliminate food miles and turn your gardens over to permaculture at whatever level you want – from a redesign of your whole plot to simply helping and sharing with someone else’s once or twice a year
- With allotment sites over-subscribed, Landshare aims to link people who want to grow their own food to space where they can grow it
- Lourish.com is a free-to-join online exchange that connects the people who are producing their own food - whether it's by growing their own fruit and veg or rearing a few animals - with local people who want to share what they produce
- The National Society of Allotment and Leisure Gardeners (NSALG) aims to "protect, promote and preserve allotments for future generations"
- Build your allotment in a series of small areas, with less watering, weeding and hard work: the Square Foot Gardening website tells you how
- Thrive is a charity that helps disabled people that "uses gardening to change the lives of disabled people". Various activities teach and encourage disabled people to enjoy the benefits of gardening
- Transition Towns has been set up to help communities respond to the challenges of climate change and peak oil. (For more information on peak oil visit Wikipedia's peak oil page.) A local group has been set up: find out more at the Transition Cambridge website
