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Sharing, community and quality of life

When I started yours2share, I didn’t realise that I was starting a social enterprise, I just wanted to help people share stuff. As the number of private syndicates that were helped by yours2share increased, I also became aware that if as the number of partners in a private syndicates increases substantially, it becomes a [...]

Sharing in action

Do you share a house, car, motorhome, boat, aircraft dog, horse or anything else? I’m always looking for examples of sharing in action to blog about on yours2share and, if they are really good and two or more partners are willing to be interviewed, for case studies.  If you are happy to tell me about [...]

Sharing allotments on Pigeon Watch

yours2share gets mentions and links from many and varied forum posts, but I had to have a look at this forum when I saw the link on the stats pages: PigeonWatch.  The forum entry is actually about sharing allotments, but I was intrigued to find this forum devoted to pigeon shooting.   With nearly a million [...]

Garden Partners

Here’s another great garden sharing scheme: Garden Partners.  Age Concern and Wandsworth Council have got together to enable elderly people who are struggling to cope with their gardens to find people who want to find somewhere to grow fruit and vegetables.

Many elderly people worry about the fact that they can’t look after their gardens, particularly [...]

Growing your own

I’ve just found that yours2share has climbed to third place in the listings if you search on Google for landshare, and following a few links as you do, found an enormous amount of information on allotments, growing your own fruit and veg, organic produce and sustainable food.  I suppose that given “Britain is a nation [...]

yours2share on YouTube

I’ve finally managed to get yours2share’s video onto YouTube!

If you want to see it in “high definition”, well much better quality, click here.

Allotments on the Economist

I’ve just commented on an article in last week’s Economist, my favourite newspaper.  I don’t remember ever reading about allotments in it before, so this probably reflects the substantial change in the middle classes that make up their readership over the last year or so.  Tending your allotment is no longer the preserve of slightly [...]

Successful garden sharing

It’s good to see examples of garden sharing or landsharing in action and Totnes in Devon has been encouraging this for a year or more and has 21 garden shares currently in place.  There is lots of useful information for anyone considering setting up a landshare, either as a landowner or as a gardener.  yours2share [...]

10 top tips for land share

If you are thinking about allowing someone who will grow vegetables in your garden, here are ten top tips to ensure a successful sharing arrangement.

Make sure there is a water source, if there isn’t one, you will need to provide one.
Work out where the composter will be located and what is to be done with [...]