River Cottage National Landshare scheme

Thu Jun 4 00:50:56 BST 2009

Grow your own with Landshare
Want to get your hands dirty? Find land where you can grow your own, or offer land in return for produce with Landshare

Landshare connects growers with landowners
Examples of landsharing - videos
http://landshare.channel4.com/blog/58
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid17736664001?bclid=17709901001&bctid=21789975001

   1. You - landowner, grower or helper
   2. Post a listing - tell others where you are and what you are offering or looking for
   3. Get responses - use our mail system to receive and send messages
   4. Have a chat - and see what happens...
http://landshare.channel4.com/how-it-works

http://landshare.channel4.com/
http://landshare.channel4.com/blog

Allotment waiting lists reach up to 40 years
Posted in News by jane on 02 June 09
http://landshare.channel4.com/blog/79
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/5422485/Allotment-waiting-lists-reach-up-to-40-years.html
The waiting list for allotments is running at 40 years in some areas of the country, as the grow-your-own trend takes root.

Labour has betrayed the people
Bryan Gould
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 2 June 2009 12.30 BST
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/02/labour-mps-expenses
The demise of the left leaves millions without proper protection from the elite who would happily exploit them....

....What this tells us is that it is always the role of government â" when necessary â" to represent the wider interest against powerful forces, and to act in a way that would be irrational or impossible for the private individual, however powerful. It is only the left that has in the past carried into government this central concept of what the true purpose of democratic government really is.
If this week's elections do indeed show how thoroughly New Labour has debased and betrayed the legacy with which it was entrusted, it will not just be Labour's party warriors who are relegated and enfeebled. The vast majority of the British people â" irrespective of their party allegiances or lack of them â" will have been significantly disenfranchised. The blow struck by the expenses scandal against faith in the democratic process will claim more casualties than just a few MPs. The real losers from the demise of the Labour party will be millions of ordinary people who â" perhaps without knowing it â" will have lost their best defence against the depredations of the powerful.