Comments on: Seeds of Hope … spied from a train carriage window… http://transitionculture.org/2006/07/24/seeds-of-hope-spied-from-a-train-carriage-window/ An Evolving Exploration into the Head, Heart and Hands of Energy Descent Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:35:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Channel Tunnel Crossings http://transitionculture.org/2006/07/24/seeds-of-hope-spied-from-a-train-carriage-window/comment-page-1/#comment-62215 Channel Tunnel Crossings Sat, 28 Mar 2009 01:01:54 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/?p=405#comment-62215 Leaving the Channel Tunnel and seeing the gardens along the railway line sounds as if it was a beautiful site. It is a trip I hope someday to make. You make it sound so peaceful and relaxing. Leaving the Channel Tunnel and seeing the gardens along the railway line sounds as if it was a beautiful site. It is a trip I hope someday to make. You make it sound so peaceful and relaxing.

]]> By: heather witham http://transitionculture.org/2006/07/24/seeds-of-hope-spied-from-a-train-carriage-window/comment-page-1/#comment-1907 heather witham Thu, 10 Aug 2006 18:57:02 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/?p=405#comment-1907 Oh how I love riding along in the trains in the UK and seeing those allotments, too! I know someone that is shocked that I didn't grow up growing food, but for me, this is completely new. (Overflowing with courgettes but have given the broccoli and kale over to caterpillars...) Did you know that town and parish councils are obligated to provide allotments? We're starting a campaign to get more as the privately-owned ones have a huge waiting list... Oh how I love riding along in the trains in the UK and seeing those allotments, too! I know someone that is shocked that I didn’t grow up growing food, but for me, this is completely new. (Overflowing with courgettes but have given the broccoli and kale over to caterpillars…)

Did you know that town and parish councils are obligated to provide allotments? We’re starting a campaign to get more as the privately-owned ones have a huge waiting list…

]]> By: Rich http://transitionculture.org/2006/07/24/seeds-of-hope-spied-from-a-train-carriage-window/comment-page-1/#comment-1698 Rich Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:05:13 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/?p=405#comment-1698 I loved the article and quite agree about the importance of allotments, I am thoroughly enjoying the fruits of my earlier labours at my own and enjoy just grazing and chatting to the neighbours about slugs and other important matters. I have an organic fair trade T-shirt company and would love to use the allotment illustration at the top of the page. Who is the artist? I loved the article and quite agree about the importance of allotments, I am thoroughly enjoying the fruits of my earlier labours at my own and enjoy just grazing and chatting to the neighbours about slugs and other important matters.

I have an organic fair trade T-shirt company and would love to use the allotment illustration at the top of the page. Who is the artist?

]]> By: Albert Bates http://transitionculture.org/2006/07/24/seeds-of-hope-spied-from-a-train-carriage-window/comment-page-1/#comment-1673 Albert Bates Tue, 25 Jul 2006 02:56:38 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/?p=405#comment-1673 I find myself mildly amused when I travel because I am so used to having a large garden and woodpile for my whole adult life (and much of my childhood) that when I find myself staying with friends, many of them well known and accomplished environmentalists and other useful professionals, who don't have that and perhaps never had, they consider themselves normal and I am the odd nutter for suggesting something is amiss. Actually most of them would agree that having a garden is better than not having one, its just not for them personally. And at this time of year, hosting permaculture courses, when I am feeding more than 30 people out of my garden at every meal, it is tempting to take such abundance for granted, forgetting that what we eat now is the product of months of careful tending and years of soil and seed preparation. That is when the axe comes out and I have the woodpile to remind me its time once more to think ahead. I find myself mildly amused when I travel because I am so used to having a large garden and woodpile for my whole adult life (and much of my childhood) that when I find myself staying with friends, many of them well known and accomplished environmentalists and other useful professionals, who don’t have that and perhaps never had, they consider themselves normal and I am the odd nutter for suggesting something is amiss. Actually most of them would agree that having a garden is better than not having one, its just not for them personally. And at this time of year, hosting permaculture courses, when I am feeding more than 30 people out of my garden at every meal, it is tempting to take such abundance for granted, forgetting that what we eat now is the product of months of careful tending and years of soil and seed preparation. That is when the axe comes out and I have the woodpile to remind me its time once more to think ahead.

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