When it comes to flooding you could say they have faced adversity on a biblical scale. Yet this tenacious community of gardeners have kept on growing and showing.
The resilience of Mirfield Allotments and Gardens Society – one of the oldest in the country – is a lengthy tradition. During the war years growing your own was, and still is, an affordable way of feeding the family. It maintained produce on plates at a time when choice and quantity was restricted by rationing. Those were the boom times – plots were plentiful but demand for ‘growing your