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Covid-19 Memories

What Your Allotment Means To You

Here are the submissions so far of our "pandemic project" to gather impressions from plotholders on what their allotment has meant during the pandemic. It is intended as a vehicle to provide reflective celebration.

For the majority of us, our allotment has been a safe haven and vital resource - as well as a means to feed ourselves. Our allotment provided us with an opportunity for meaningful physical exercise in the early weeks of the lockdown. The gardening process is usually therapeutic and many of us have been reminded how tending the land is good for general well-being. This has been noted by many of our fellow citizens: in Edinburgh the waiting list for an allotment has shot up by 800.

This section will grow as submissions are received up to the end of August. There is a possibility of creating a book(let) as a permanent record, but please keep your recollections coming in to [email protected]. Make sure you include your name(s) and your allotment site so your submission can be attributed to you.
Read what the lock down has meant to Edinburgh's allotment holders by clicking the links.

In no particular order -
Maggie Mellon
Chris McKinnell
Ian, Megan and Ivy
Kerry Houston
Stewart Henderson
Linda Dalziel
Bill Tait
Katy Kerr
Clare Campbell
Clare Campbell part 2
Martin Finlayson
Fiona Brownlie
Tracy Griffen
Fi and Andy Strathdee
Niloufer and John
Stelios Deverakis
Jan Urquhart
Mila Middleton
Frances Wright
Inverleith
Maggie Ferguson
Ian Ferguson
Jane Aldous
Christine Davidson
Cath Shearing
Pete, Sarah, Oscar & Felix
Patricia Andrew
Catherine McDonald
Carol Marr
Alison Hewitt
Stuart Swarbrick
Hetty Wilson
Karen & Nicholas Shepherd
Calum, Sarah, Euan and Ellen
Rose Pipes
Patricia Baillie Strong
Kate and Kids

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