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Can allotment societies sell produce to raise funds?
Yes, providing it's not specifically excluded in your allotment tenancy agreement.
Wirral Council's new tenancy agreement does not prevent the sale of excess produce to raise funds for the Allotment Society.
Growing in the Community: a good practice guide for the management of allotments (LGA, 2001) has a section called 'Sale of Produce'. It emphasises that the purpose of an allotment is a plot which is "wholly or mainly cultivated by by the occupier for the production of vegetable or fruit crops for consumption by himself or his family". It then goes on to say that "Plotholders with surplus produce could be encouraged to donate this to the allotment associations which can then sell them for the purpose of raising funds for the upkeep of the site."
It gives an example in Cambridge where local allotment societies sell excess produce at a stall at the farmer's market. The stall also acts as an information point about allotment gardening.
The Allotment Regeneration Initiative include this in their extensive ARI factsheet on income generation for allotment sites.
Can I keep chickens on my allotment?
NSALG legal advice is that plotholders have a right to keep chickens or rabbits (but not cockerels) provided that they are not allowed to cause a nuisance on the site.
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