Welcome to our first GAF on-line newsletter

• Share knowledge and information
• Support Glasgow’s allotment associations to better manage and develop their sites
• Promote the benefits that allotments make to local communities. 

• An Evening with Charles Dowding'
• Action for Allotments webinar.
• We are also planning for our two major annual events - Potato Day in the New Year and a Celebration of Allotments.

Charles is a well-known in gardening circles, but if you’ve never heard of him before then now’s the time to learn something new from the master of no-dig. When people hear the words ‘no-dig’, their first thoughts are often of semi-wild patches of ground between crops, given over to wildlife as a space to live.On the contrary – the point of no-dig is to cut down on the number of wild plants and weeds without all the back-breaking work that usually comes with it.

There are still places available on this free virtual seminar.  To sign up click here to go to the GAF web site.

Rising Demand for allotments across Glasgow - how do we get more?

GAF has collected data from associations that shows that waiting lists are rising across Glasgow.  Glasgow City Council has promised that they will ‘develop new allotment sites where suitable locations are identified and there is recognised local demand.’

Therefore all of us who want a patch of land to cultivate need to come together to demonstrate the demand and then work with the Council to create new sites. The opportunity is there.

As a start GAF and GCC will hold a webinar on Action for New Allotments on 27 October at 7.30 pm.  It's open to all. If you are interested sign up  by emailing gafforum@gmail.com.  If you can’t join in please email anyway to indicate your interest in the Action.

More information on the webinar is on the GAF website and the face book page.

Two Sheets to the Wind

Puzzled, I kept my eye on him and noticed he kept flying down to where a rotting apple was lying on a brick wall and feeding on it. I came to the conclusion that maybe he was drunk!  Later, checking on the web, I found out it is quite common for butterflies and wasps to get drunk on the alcohol produced by the yeasts that thrive on windfalls at this time of year.