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Title: Home Grown Project – Can You Help?
Post by: John on August 14, 2020, 11:28
An interesting research project that you can help with run by researchers from the University of Sheffield. How self-sufficient are we? What contribution could own-growing make to our food supply?

Home Grown Project – Can You Help? (https://www.allotment-garden.org/garden-diary/7004/home-grown-project/)
Title: Re: Home Grown Project – Can You Help?
Post by: GraciesGran on August 21, 2020, 07:34
Just signed up. Will be recording growing, gathering and eating details.  Hopefully to inspire/encourage me to do better at the plot.  You choose your own start day so have gone for 1at September.
Title: Re: Home Grown Project – Can You Help?
Post by: John on August 21, 2020, 09:33
Hope more people do as well, research like this is important.
Title: Re: Home Grown Project – Can You Help?
Post by: jaydig on August 21, 2020, 19:16
I've signed up too. This could be very interesting, and maybe result in the provision of more allotments, and perhaps even new homes with sufficient garden for veg plots.
Title: Re: Home Grown Project – Can You Help?
Post by: GraciesGran on August 28, 2020, 15:03
Diary arrived today.  Looking forward to starting on the 1st.
Title: Re: Home Grown Project – Can You Help?
Post by: Beepee on September 01, 2020, 14:12
I think I might give this a go. Often wondered exactly how much the garden does produce. Tend not to be aware when gathering on a sort of daily basis. Joining this project would give more pupose to the counting/ weighhing that would be involved. I'll start my diary on 1 October as that is when my garden year starts.
Title: Re: Home Grown Project – Can You Help?
Post by: jaydig on September 01, 2020, 16:01
My diary arrived on Monday, so I've started it today as it's the 1st September.  I would be very interested in the conclusions drawn from the research once all of the information is collated and analysed. It should be very interesting.
Title: Re: Home Grown Project – Can You Help?
Post by: Echium on February 07, 2021, 18:29
I've just applied, its been accepted and will wait for the response, we think several of the allotmenters will be up for this, perhaps helping someone get their PHD!