Important - Coronavirus (COVID-19) Information
Updated for Vinery 19th September 2020 11:00am
- You can work your plot, provided you follow all official advice about social distancing and hygiene.
- Social distancing means keeping an absolute minimum of 1 metre apart and preferably 2.
- If you or anyone else in your household has symptoms of Covid 19 you must stay away from the site.
- The toilets at Vinery and Burnside remain closed until further notice.
- The Vinery Pavilion is open again - please ensure you maintain social distancing and hygiene measures. Updated 19 Sep 2020
- Vinery gates should be left open during the day and locked by the last person to leave. Please maintain hand hygiene if you touch the gate.
- Burnside gates: please maintain hand hygiene when touching the gates.
- Bonfires: as a courtesy to our neighbours on both sites, please don’t light any bonfires; for some people, an open window may be their only fresh air.
- PLEASE ensure that there is no unauthorised access to your site.
- Do not share tools or use communal equipment
- Do not wash your hands, tools or crops in water troughs
- PLEASE check this website regularly for new information and updates.
External links
Click here to visit the NHS website for information and advice.
Click here to visit the NSALG website for allotment-specific advice.
Site enquiries
For Vinery-specific enquiries, please email vinery
For Burnside-specific enquiries, please email burnsidesitemanager
What's new in the last 14 days
21 Oct 2020Penny has updated the list of trees in the Burnside orchard
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Follow the links on this page to keep up to date with what is going, look at our photo albums, get growing and cooking ideas, check out the store, and much more.
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For many years, Trevor Taylor, the Society's Honorary President, produced a regular allotment newsletter called Weeder’s Digest, which usually included growing tips, general allotment news and recipes. Here is our equivalent.
This page is an at-a-glance view of what is new, what is happening and, hopefully, what is interesting in the world of allotmenteering and of the Society. If there is anything you think we should be talking about, or anything you would like to contribute, let us know.
Too many tomatoes?
A profusion of peas?
A surplus of shallots?
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought hard times to a lot of people. We are receiving requests from a number of Cambridge food hubs for help from anyone who may have surplus produce from their plot. They are all very grateful for any support or donations - see below for details:
Coleridge Community Food Bank has been running since June 5th. Produce is checked, washed and air dried in St Thomas’s high spec kitchen. Contact Andrew Drury by email at centre@st-martins-cambridge.org.uk
The C3 Church is running an initiative called ‘Love Your Neighbour’, supporting people in different ways during the crisis. By early July, they had already provided over 30,000 meals since the beginning of lockdown. They are happy to collect surplus produce. Phone 01223 844415 or email receptionteam@thec3.uk See also their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/thec3.impact
Cambridge Sustainable Food are running an emergency food programme over the summer. Details of the scheme can be found on their website – www.cambridgesustainablefood.org/allotmentvegdonations
The Edge Café on Mill Road is now re-open. They are being used as part of the Cambridge Food hub during the pandemic.
As such, they welcome pretty much any contributions, so if you have spare allotment fruit and veg do donate if you can.
Drop it off just after 11.30am when they are setting things up, at the usual entrance. They then open at 12 noon for two hours.
The Edge Café,
351 Mill Road, Cambridge,
CB1 3DF
Click here for more details.
The Society page contains important documentation and details of your committee representatives.
Tips, recipes, personal experiences - all here
We always like to record events, people, plots, and the changing of the seasons in photographs. If you have any you'd like to display, let the webmaster know.
220 days since lockdown first started.
150 days until British Summer Time starts.
The Society runs a Store, open now to early summer, selling allotment essentials at low prices.
This year, while coronavirus is a threat, only online orders will be taken.
The NSALG has an active site with all sorts of useful tips and advice.
Aprons, lovingly hand-made by Jill from Burnside. Available from the Store for a minimum donation of £3
Yellow plastic trug - new. £9.50
Folding barrow - as new. £20