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Each essay brings its own perspective on allotment tending, from the history of the old boys who kept them going, to the community or lack of community in modern allotmenteering. 
My personal favourite would be the interviews with the Newcastle allotmenteers in the 1990’s which just took me back to the city and had me searching for the plots (of which one no longer exists due to road building). In second year of university I lived opposite a patch of Newcastles allotments and remember watching out my attic bedroom window. At 20 I had no interest in gardening, but the allotments fascinated me. 
Rob Cowen poem was also a stand out, as well as Sarah Venn’s passion for land guardianship and it’s accessibility.