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The Model Market Garden in Marble Hill Park

Left: Garden Produce, photo Shelagh Laing. Centre: Cllr Meena Bond, Mayor of the London Borough of Richmond, 2014, photo Shelagh Laing. Right: Community Plot-Holders, photo Natalie Dupuis.

New in February 2016: Garden Volunteers needed with a passion for growing, no specialist knowledge required.

The centrepiece of Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow is the Model Market Garden in Marble Hill Park (next to the One O’Clock Club, location map) to restore traditional methods of growing and lost heritage varieties of fruit and vegetables and provide opportunities for local residents to gain new skills and create a sustainable interest in heritage horticulture. Volunteers are helping to preserve the history and spread knowledge about market gardens so that the ingenious and hard-working growers are remembered, and our traditional fruits and vegetables are once again enjoyed. Ten community plots are used by local people with no growing space. The garden includes a Dig for Victory bed, celebrating the food-growing campaign of the Second World War.

Before and after - Model Market Garden in Marble Hill Park
Lady gardeners at Kew during the Second World War

Photograph copyright the Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

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