Who needs landfill when you have Geoff Stokes rootling around in your skip? Rusty guttering or timber off-cuts, nothing goes to waste down on the allotment, which has become more than an eco-microsystem to the nation's 83,000 tenants. Forget the quintessential fiat caps and roll-up cigarettes.The National Society of Allotment & Leisure Gardeners has attracted IT and media types as its new converts. Stokes, the society's secretary, is mildly put out at the doddery but dated image of the allotment holder, and insists he is a "very young" 61. Today's tenant could just as easily be middle aged, middle class and anything but middle minded.
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