This Allotment: Stories of Growing, Eating and Nurturing Story - Barbican Letter Illustration A vivid childhood memory sitting

A vivid childhood memory sitting underneath a cashew nut tree in the back garden of his grandparents house in Nigeria

match girls and dockers who crusaded for workers’ rights

the historic church where you can hear avant-garde electronic music

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This Allotment: Stories of Growing, Eating and Nurturing Story - Barbican Letter Illustration A vivid childhood memory sittingAn allotment. A health giving, heart filling miniature kingdom of carrots, courgettes and callaloo. A microcosm for our societies at large as people claim their patch and guard it protectively, but also of welcoming arms, gifted gluts and new recipes from overseas. They are places of blowsy dahlias, cricket on the radio and cups of tea in tumbledown sheds; they are buzzing bees and the wisdom of weeds and seeds; they are resilience, resistance and