Green-fingered growers gather for grand opening party of new allotments site
Green-fingered growers gathered for the grand opening party of a new allotments site – and it was a blooming success.
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Mayor of Dudley Andrea Goddard cut the ribbon with garden shears to declare Roots Allotments in Sugar Loaf Fields, Stourbridge, officially open on Saturday.
The site, one of four the Roots team have developed across the country, actually got off the ground in September when many of the 150 existing plots were snapped up by a variety of experienced and novice gardeners.
And around another 100 plots are now being added to the former potato field in Sugar Loaf Lane so more people can get involved.
The mayor said: “It’s been wonderful meeting people who have formed an amazing new community of growers.
"If I had more time I think I would get stuck in myself.”
