Land leased to the community to grow vegetables after the first world war is needed now more than ever, gardeners say
For nearly four decades Grace Gray has tended to her plot at the Park Road allotments in Isleworth, west London.
Each day she travels a mile from her home to the three-acre piece of land. She studies its nature – the loss of pollinators, the glut of apples and the influx of green and spotted woodpeckers – finding pleasure in watching the land, and the people who care for it, grow.
