As evidenced by our satisfied customer Alison on twitter. Details of further boot sales soon.
Sunday, 29 April 2012
Sunday, 22 April 2012
New to the Society and have questions?
Please read our new FAQs page especially if you are likely to get a plot on Sandown 2. Any other questions can be asked at the next meeting or via e-mail to the address in the sidebar.
Work on Sandown 2 Continues
Bookmark this set of images on Flickr. More will be posted as the work continues. Gordy is making rapid progress and it is hoped that the fencing will start next week too.
Thursday, 19 April 2012
Allotment town – one third of all Highland plots are in Sunny Nairn!
Last night around 30 folk attended a
meeting at the Waverly hotel. They were mainly the new intake for the 37 Sandown
2 plots that will be allocated in mid-May. Dick Youngson, chair of NAS gave
them a brief introduction to the Society. He told them that when the new plots
were ready there would be over 100 allotments in Nairn at Sandown, Mill Road and
two other micro sites in the town Centre. There was a sense of déjà vu about the
meeting as it is incredible that after securing and developing the Mill Road site last
year the Society have pulled it off again with the opening of Sandown 2 now on
the horizon.
Dick outlined the history of the Sandown
plots from the mid-eighties when the Viewfield plots were closed and new
provision made on the edge of town. He outlined how the Society was formed in
2005 in response to fears that the Sandown plots could be developed. From the
formation of the group NAS have never looked back. There has been a sea change
in the attitude of Highland Council to allotments too, not only in Nairn but
throughout the Highlands , this was evidenced by the presence of Keith Walker, the Council’s
allotments officer.
The new members were given the opportunity
to ask a few questions and meet each other and the committee. Keith gave all
the new starts a survey that will be filled in anonymously now and one year on
to gauge new plotters attitudes to the health benefits of working a plot. This
is an initiative that Keith and other allotment officers throughout Scotland
are working. Keith said that Holyrood is showing a great interest in allotment
gardening and he had received Freedom of Information requests from MSPs in
relation to questions about plots in the Highlands .
He told us for the Society’s information
after the meeting: “At the beginning of 2010 when we started implementing the
new allotments policy, there were 7 sites in Highland with a
total of 101 plots. Right now, that’s increased to 15 sites and 266 plots. With
Sandown2 in operation, that will
increase to 303 plots,”
This means that now one third of all plots
in the Highlands are in Nairn. The Society will not stop looking for more sites
however. The waiting list is growing again. If you are a landowner who could
help or even a householder with a big garden you aren’t using, then the Society
wants to hear from you.
Society representatives attended a meeting at the hospital on Friday the 13th. We went in response to an e-mail from Sam at Sky Delights. Here’s part of what she had to say:
Friday, 13 April 2012
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