Important - Coronavirus (COVID-19) Information
Updated 12th January 2021
During the current lockdown it is still okay to work your plot, provided you continue to social distance and take hygiene precautions when visiting the site and touching communal surfaces (gates etc). You can work your plot with your household or support bubble but should limit it to once per day.
NSALG emphasise that there are still risks even though it may feel safe on an allotment site.
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
Welcome to your Society site!
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 worlds 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.
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.
Let us know what you think about the site and any suggestions you have about content. Better still, send us an article or some photos.
Email me, Joan, at webmaster
Cambridge Sustainable Food
Cambridge Sustainable Food is an innovative and growing partnership of public, private and community organisations in Cambridge and the surrounding villages. We work with each other to promote a vibrant local food system all along the supply chain and in our community.
CSF welcomes your surplus fruit and veg on behalf of the organisations they represent to keep their services running and support those struggling to access food. They are running their ‘Grow a Row’ campaign again this year. Click here for more information.
Spring is (almost) in the air - so order your beanpoles now!
Glenn Hadley, a coppice worker at Hayley Wood Nature Reserve near Great Gransden, is offering a delivery service for small orders of beanpoles, pea sticks and garden canes and more. The sticks are cut as part of the coppice cycle at Hayley Wood, so they are a local and sustainable resource which helps a diverse woodland structure for wildlife.
Glenn is accepting orders on a first come first served basis up until Thursday 18th February. A full price list is available here. Please note:
- due to their bulky nature, pea sticks will be limited to 2 bundles per order.
- there will be a delivery charge per order, based on location and order size. Glenn will keep this charge as low as he can to cover his costs.
- he will confirm all orders and delivery charges by email and provide details of how to pay.
- it may take some time to process emails so please don’t worry if you do not receive confirmation straight away.
- payment must be made by bank transfer before delivery.
- deliveries will be made throughout February, on a pre-agreed date.
- please provide details of where to leave your order in order to reduce contact.
When you have decided what you want, please email Glenn at
Glenn Hadley
including the following information:
- your name
- your email address
- a contact telephone number
- the delivery address (must be easily accessible)
- instructions on where to leave your purchases (to minimise contact)
- the products you require with quantities
- any other information
Please note: Glenn will handle all products with gloves and would advise that you do the same, as well as washing your hands thoroughly after handling.
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.
342 days since lockdown first started.
28 days until British Summer Time starts.
The Society usually runs a Store in the summer months, selling allotment essentials at low prices.
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