Sentence examples for allotment movement from inspiring English sources
Private landowners might be drawn in as well.But allowing wealthy gardeners to queue-barge would run against the spirit and history of the allotment movement.
A succession of smallholding and allotment acts placed a duty on local authorities to provide land according to demand, enabling the allotment movement to mature into something resembling its present status.
The idea of giving over a portion, or "allotment" of land to the labouring poor for the provision of growing food did not take root until the Enlightenment, and even then the allotment movement was infused with a kind of paternalism: better to have the lower classes growing their own turnips than wallowing in the ale houses or indulging other morally destitute habits.
As Foley's thorough, if less than enthralling, study of the allotment movement shows, the availability to commoners of a portion of land has been a highly contested theme of social history since the completion of William the Conqueror's "Great Survey" of England and Wales in 1086.
It said the allotments would move to a site nearby.
"The campaign was given an allotment of tickets," Fehrnstrom said.
The Abalimi movement provides food security for families through microfarming, largely at the home, and on community allotments.
But the rise in urban farming and growing, demand for allotment spaces and success of small farm producers suggests potential, if not for a full-scale "back to the land" movement, then certainly for a change in this trend.
The need for a much broader community and civic movement involvement in the planning decision-making processes is viewed as crucial to secure the continuity of the allotment gardens within the city.
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