Alveston Allotments Association

How to contact Alveston Allotments Association

A committee organises the site and the plot holders.

For more information please contact the Chairman or Secretary, Alveston Allotments Association by email: .

There is a waiting list for allotments and if you would like your name to be added, please use the email link to make your request.

Alveston Allotments 2012 Update

We have enjoyed two seasons at Alveston Allotments. There has been a very steep learning curve and great progress has been made. All this would not have been possible without Mrs Hawkins donating the land and a huge contribution by the Parish Council who have made it happen. Our heartfelt thanks go to them.

The Parish Council, as a result of the Parish Plan, drew up a waiting list from interested parties within Alveston in 2007. Following the acquisition of the site, situated off Forty Acre Lane along a footpath, each plot was initially assigned to a name taken from their waiting list, allocated on a system of randomly drawn names and numbers in 2008.

The site has subsequently been transformed from a field with horses, overgrown with brambles, nettles, ground elder, tree stumps and other strenuously belligerent weeds. These weeds are continuing to fight their losing battle I am glad to report; we now have 35 individual, very productive vegetable allotments.

Everybody has worked tirelessly to create well managed fertile allotments, helped by the supply of compost from ‘Thornbury Composting’ and farmyard manure. Initially members' knowledge of vegetable growing ranged from “never done it before” to “show quality results”.

Everybody has come together and is happy to talk and discuss gardening issues and exchange knowledge, the sense of community this creates cannot be underestimated it is a pleasure to visit the allotments.

Over the two years we have fed ourselves, friends, relations and donated vegetables to several charities including the Alveston Show Raffle.

The site continues to be a quiet refuge for vegetables, fruit and flowers to grow and is a great source of pleasure to the tenants; we have recently improved an area which we hope will encourage wild life.

Mrs Hawkins has kindly given two bench seats for the communal areas and we are well on the way to installing a permanent water supply.