Category — europe

by Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894)
The Gardeners
Oil on canvas, 1875-1877

See larger image here.

2008 National Geographic Video
August 14, 2008

With food prices and interest in organic produce growing, some Londoners are growing their own—as their grandparents did in World War II.

See video here.

Food Up Front website here.

Photo of Jens Larsson’s Allotment Garden.

By Lena Boström, (2007) 38 pages - In Swedish
Faculty of Landscape Planning, Horticulture and Agricultural Science

“The movement of the allotment gardens reached Sweden in the beginning of the last century. The allotment gardens quickly spread among the big towns from Malmö in the south and to the far north of the country. Today, there are about 42 000 owners of allotment gardens in Sweden. This work will show the differencies and similarities comparing the original ideas of allotment gardens with how they are used today. The specific questions were; what are the reasons to acquire an allotment garden; is it used for raising vegetables and fruit or only for growing flowers; is what is cultivated there also gathered and used or is it cultivated only for the pleasure of gardening; and finally how the owners of the allotment gardens spend their time there – by cultivating the land or by recreational activities.

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