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LITTLE
GREEN SPACE
News
release
For immediate
release:
Friday
5th November 2010
GET
MATLOCK GROWING CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED
Award-winning
environmental project Little Green Space is encouraging Matlock residents
to join the grow your own food revolution through a new Get Matlock
Growing campaign.
“Everyone should have the chance to eat fresh, healthy, tasty food that
they have grown themselves. It’s one of life’s great pleasures. And as
well as improving people’s quality of life, it can knock huge holes in
their monthly food bills,” said Richard Bunting from Little Green Space.
“Of course, not everyone has access to space to grow their own, and in
Matlock there are huge numbers of people on the waiting lists for
allotments. So we are asking the local councils to help sow the seeds of
change, and to do all they can to provide the community with some extra,
much-needed allotment space.
“We are also encouraging people and businesses across Matlock to think
about making their own plots more productive.”
As well as improving people’s quality of life and saving cash, other
benefits from growing your own food include:
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Access
to green spaces improves people’s physical and mental health.
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People
can enjoy the seasonal rhythms of growing and cooking.
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Children
thrive on the fresh air and exercise, and learn valuable skills.
Home-grown food is also a brilliant way of encouraging children to eat healthily and to try new
fruit and veg.
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Maintaining an allotment, vegetable garden or planting fruit
trees helps to protect biodiversity, cuts the carbon emissions produced by
food miles and reduces needless packaging.
Even for those with very limited space, it is easy to produce cash-saving
crops. Salad leaves and herbs, for example, can be planted in small pots
or even a window box. They are easy to grow and are often quickly ready
for harvest.
Little
Green Space is also encouraging people to buy local food and support local
food producers, boosting the local economy as well as helping the
environment.
Little Green Space will be adding advice and tips to its website at www.littlegreenspace.org.uk.
Through its own work and by inspiring others, Little
Green Space is creating a network of rich and healthy spaces for people
and wildlife.
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