CHUG wins Edible Green Corners award

Posted on January 24, 2012

EDIBLE GREEN CORNERS – The Floating Allotment, Kingsland Basin, Hackney – Courtesy of Edible GreenCorners Website

A community of 14 Hackney boat dwellers has turned one of the old boats into a floating allotment on which herbs, perennials and annuals grow. The boat is a cornucopia of rosemary, basil, Thai sage, chives and mint, strawberries, artichokes, lettuces, tomatoes, squash, beetroot and much more. The produce is shared between the households involved and when there’s a particularly bumper crop, it’s left in a common area so people can help themselves. Here Valerie Easty, Tim Storey and Marnie Collins are congraulated by Susan Hampshire.

http://www.conservationfoundation.co.uk/award_info.php?id=14

Hackney floating allotments win green award

Hackney Citizen on CHUG – ‘Away from the Hackney main stream’

Posted on July 14, 2011

Kingsland Basin resident Hannah Engelkamp Photo: © Bruno Conrad

‘Some of the borough’s more adventurous residents share the secrets of life on the river’

Jenny Stevens Monday 5 July 2010

‘Tucked behind Kingsland Road and encased in a rickety black fence lies Kingsland Basin, home to Hackney’s secret narrowboat community. From the bridge overlooking the basin from the Regent’s Canal, a series of neatly moored narrowboats bob like toy ships. The brightly coloured vessels are surrounded by pots of budding vegetable plants, compost bins and paint pots: a tidy yet shambolic home to the basin’s residents.’

go to the Hackney Citizen’s website for more:

http://hackneycitizen.co.uk/2010/07/05/away-from-the-hackney-main-stream/