Milnshaw: Allotment spaces available

Fancy growing your own?

The Council has a number of small plots and raised beds up for grabs at its Meadoway allotment site on Queen Road West, so now even more green fingered Hyndburn folk have the chance to grow their own fruit and vegetables.

Allotment plots available include small, easy manageable raised beds to the larger allotment plots, where some good healthy digging will be needed, but well worth the reward of eating your own veggies and fruit. It may be easy to go to the supermarket and load your trolley up with fruit and veg but growing it yourself is so rewarding. Eating pickled onions in December, making stews with potatoes and Leeks during the winter months and remembering summer days spent at the allotment watching these crops grow is wonderful.

Cllr Ken Moss, Cabinet Member for Allotments, said; “The Council’s allotments are a fantastic place for people to get out and about, meet new people, and enjoy a healthy activity. It’s well documented that growing and allotmenteering is beneficial to mental health, physical health and wellbeing.”

 Call Ian Marfleet, Allotments Manager at Hyndburn on 01254 388111 for further information or visit the Councils Allotments website at www.hyndburnbc.gov.uk.