Allotments provide more than just a place to grow fruit or vegetables. They are a way of life for many, and the focus of community endeavour and resilience.
This year’s national allotments week, organised by the National Allotment Society, takes place from 13-19 August and celebrates all the year-round hard work by allotment holders and councils to protect and manage these precious green spaces.
National Allotments Week began in 2002 as a way of raising awareness of allotments and the role they play in helping people to live healthier lifestyles, grow their own food, develop friendships and bolster communities. The campaign week is still thriving 12 years later, encouraging everyone around the UK to grow food in their own in gardens, balconies and backyards.
Every year, we ask Guardian readers to share their pictures of their allotments, and every year, we receive a cornucopia of beautiful photos celebrating readers’ hard work and community spirit on their allotments. Here’s last year’s gallery.
To celebrate national allotments week, we are once asking Guardian readers once again to share your pictures of allotments and the wonderful produce you’ve grown. Tell us what these community assets mean to you and at the end of August, we’ll create a gallery of the best pictures.
How to contribute
You can share your photographs and tell us a bit about them by using the form below. It would be useful to know where and when the picture was taken. We'll publish a gallery of some of our favourite pictures at the end of August.
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