Sentence examples for as allotment from inspiring English sources

Tenant involvement has resulted in the funding of a number of activities, such as allotment and gardening clubs, community cafes, even day trips to the seaside.

The Wounded Knee site passed from the Oglala into private hands through the process known as allotment, begun in the late 1800s, by which the federal government divided land among the Indians and gave other parcels to non-Indians.

At the time of emancipation about 45 percent of the land was private property and the remainder was held as allotment land, cultivated in units averaging 9.5 acres (3.8 hectares) by the peasant serfs against rent in kind and labour, payable to feudal lords.

To support a relatively high number of bumble bee species in the future, urban planners must become aware of the importance of areas with high diversity, such as allotment gardens, and also actively plan the larger urban landscape to maintain pollination services.

We are looking at ways to keep the land as allotments, but it is not easy.

Are you interested in its archives of wildlife records, or do you have a question about its efforts to turn over land for use as allotments?

Woo Woo is a London-based company that installs dehydrating toilets for UK clients without access to mains sewerage, such as allotments.

Houseplants, window boxes and roof gardens all have a positive role to play; as do participatory urban green spaces such as allotments, community gardens and city farms, especially in inner-city neighbourhoods lacking a large central park.

Parish councils – not to be confused with church parishes, which have been separate for over a century – are often responsible for items such as allotments, community centres, cemeteries and parks.

Scotland is pock-marked by scores of these clubs that refuse to allow women to be members and occupy land that, more often than not, could be put to better use as allotments.

An ugly side of current scares over future food supply is wealthy, land-poor states, like those in the Gulf and South Korea, acquiring tracts of undeveloped countries to use as allotments.