landshare over allotment?

[munchh]

Hi, well ive been trawling around the last few weeks looking for allotments and this landshare thing was mntioned to me, but althought the site says great things, all the posts seem to be way back in 2011 and after searching on here to see if anyone has talked about it, it is the same all the posts are 2011?

Has Hugh moved on from this i wonder, he in on twitter right now talking about 'Fruit share'.

Anyway, my local council have about 20 different allotment sites, all have waiting lists and at £3.70sqm i am pretty sure i am never going to have one (ave plot round here is 130sqm!)

So i am no a bit frustrated, i am off after tomorrow for 12 days so will be spending some time looking into land share a bit more, even going to visit some if i can.

Any advice on this, i am a total novice at growing, the best we have done is strawberrys in pots and tumberling tomatoes in hanging baskets, but i know a veggy plot is something i need, possibly bees, fruit trees, i have big plans, but need to start somewhere?

[tigs]

with land share you pay your ground rent with a percentage of what you grow , any where from 10% to 50% you have to negotiate that before you start growing

[preppingsu]

Have a look for TransitionTowns near you. They might be able to suggest some available land.

Any neighbours with big gardens that they are finding tot hard to manage . Offer to grow veg etc and give them some of your produce.

Keep pestering for an allotment. Visit the allotment sites, see which ones aren't being looked after.

[prepperG]

I have just started an allotment this year as prep and as a learning tool. they are very cheap, i have a small plot (2.5 rods) they say 10rods is enough to grow food for a family of 4. plot is about 5/15m
it is a good way to learn allthough i expect crop to get stolen if shtf.
i have been looking to buy land for a bol, would like to have bunker and set land up with a lots of edible
plants. the problem is getting an income from the land to pay for itself as i dont have much savings.
30 acres costs about 300k, 1 arce is about 62/62m
if people want to rent some land i might be able to buy 30acres and rent out at £720 per acre per year thats £15 per week.
have some ideas to reduce that but that would be worst case.

[PreppingPingu]

Some towns run a scheme, I forget what its called - garden share or something, where you garden and grow in someone else's garden. It tends to be older or infirm people or just those with a large garden and who can't manage it. You plant, grow and maintain it for the owner and as payment, you get a proportion of what you produce. No rent or land usage fees. Obviously it is restrictive in that you and the garden's owner have to agree what times you can have access etc and also the owner may want a crop grown that you wouldn't normally grow but that is another option that I have seen about.