We are pround to launch the first Transition Westcombe project today.
Patch Match is a garden-sharing project aiming to match up people with spare space in their gardens with others who want to grow their own food but who don't have a garden and cannot get an allotment.
We think there is real demand for this free service. Allotment waiting lists across London are groaning, and have grown tenfold in the last 15 years or so.
If you have tried recently to put your name on the waiting list for our local sites, on Humber Road and by Maze Hill station, you probably found that, not only was the wait likely to be long (over 10 years at Humber Road), but in fact you could not even join the waiting list, as they have been closed to new names.
Meanwhile, there are many people in Westcombe who have gardens but for various reasons cannot make full use of them but would be glad to see them used for growing food.
Patch Match hopes to put these two sets of people in touch. We hope this will do something to increase the amount of food grown locally, so increasing our resilience and food security and cutting our food miles and carbon emissions. It could also help to strenghthen our community by putting people in touch with their near neighbours - if you're coming to see our free film screening on 25 March, you might agree after seeing it how important that is to a society's ability to survive and thrive under stress.
Find out more or sign up at www.patchmatch.blogspot.com.
If you have neighbours you think would like to take part but who do not have online lives, you could print the details and take them round to them. But we do hope to have posters and flyers in local shops and libraries before long.
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