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UNDERTAKING THE THIRD YEAR OF THE R J HARRIS-STYLE ALLOTMENT
UNDERTAKING THE FOURTH YEAR OF THE R J HARRIS-STYLE ALLOTMENT
LAUNCHING THE FOUR-YEAR-OLD, FULLY PREPARED R J HARRIS-STYLE ALLOTMENT UPON ITS FUTURE AS A WEED-FREE PRODUCER OF ORGANICALLY-GROWN VEGETABLES AND SOFT FRUITS, AND AS THE IMPOSER UPON ITS MANAGERS OF THE LEAST AMOUNT OF PHYSICAL AND MENTAL DEMAND.
FINDING AN ALLOTMENT AND ACQUIRING
THE RIGHT TO USE IT FOR FOOD PRODUCTION
The long-standing guidance to the urban allotment seeker -- "Walk the streets and use your eyes" -- cannot be taken seriously by today's busy folk. Of course, one is watchful and peers over hedges and down bosky tracks as an incidental part of the daily round. One does survey the general scene from each of the sides of handy road bridges across railway lines. One gleans names, addresses and telephone numbers from the notice boards found at the entrances of the open spaces that are seen to be divided up into cultivated rectangles. One pursues these leads as far as is possible.
The key to successful allotment finding within the built environment lies not in this haphazard process, however. It lies in system, method, organisation, the exercise of much patience and the application of much persistence -- as follows
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