Did you know that the allotments in Milton (down by the golf course) provides food for the hospice? Allotment holders put their surplus produce into the ‘Foodshare’ bin and a loyal group of volunteers are allocated a day or two each week and on those days, check the bin and take any produce directly to […]
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Milton Primary and Foodshare in the News
Foodshare and Milton Primary School hit national BBC news on Thursday evening with their “Grow-Cook-Share Day” when Year 6 ‘Head Gardeners’ harvested a special bed of vegetables the school had grown to create a soup to feed around 30 homeless people at Jimmy’s Night Shelter this evening. The story was linked this evening from the […]
Parish Council Maintenance Committee
There will be a meeting of your parish council’s maintenance committee on Monday (27/9) at 7:30pm in the Bowls Pavilion on Coles Road. The full agenda is available online here . A wide variety of issues are being discussed including the cemetery, various issues at the allotments, new play equipment for the village (include a […]
Milton Allotments Meeting
Milton allotments is setting up an association for allotment holders and kitchen gardeners and is holding a meeting upstairs at the community centre next Tuesday (27/4) starting at 7:30pm to discuss it. Come along to hear Karen Kenny from The National Society of Allotments and Leisure Gardeners (NSALG) giving a short talk about allotments and […]
Allotment Holders Meeting
The parish council met with allotment holders last week to update them on where the council is with the search for recreation land and the impact one particular option could have on allotment holders as it may involve moving the allotments to a new site. You can find a report of the meeting online here […]
Important Meeting about Allotments
Rob Chapman, the chair of the parish council, has written to all allotment holders about an important meeting to do with the allotments however it doesn’t seem to have got to all of them, despite being posted on the council web site and noticeboards and being mailed to all allotment holders with email. So here […]
Foodshare on Gardeners’ Question Time
Milton is in the spotlight again, this time on the nation’s favourite and longest running radio show. Tune into BBC Radio 4 with 2.5 million other listeners on Friday (5/2) at 3pm or Sunday (7/2) at 2pm to hear Milton’s Foodshare project being discussed by the panel. The show will also be archived on BBC […]