A city allotment

BLOGGERS AND ENTHUSIASTIC VEG GROWERS ADE AND SOPHIE SELLARS TELL US ABOUT THE JOYS OF HARVESTING THEIR OWN AND LIFE ON THEIR PLOT

Words and photography: AGENTS OF FIELD

Sophie and Ade took on their allotment three years ago to grow more veg. Little did they know that it would change their lives. Sophie used to organise film shoots but now writes about gardening and cooking, and Ade used to work in TV but is now a photographer and horticulturalist. Together they produce a blog Agents of Field,* which won Blog of the Year 2016; agentsoffield.com The story so far Sophie: “We didn’t have much interest in gardening until a few years ago when we bought our house on the outskirts of London and found ourselves with a small garden of our own for the first time. After watching Alys Fowler’s TV series The Edible Garden, I realised that it was possible to grow fruit and vegetables in a tiny urban…

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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2017 - Issue 58

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