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Lava

On a photo walk today I met this adorable girl and her grandfather. They invited me into their allotment garden in Södermalm, where her grandfather was growing an incredible amount of flowers, vegetables and fruits. He had figs, apricots, pumpkins, squash (zucchini), cucumbers, tomatoes, oranges, grapes and lots more. A very nice meeting.

My own garden is much larger, but I only grow weeds.

Lava is 5½ years old.

An allotment garden (British English), often called simply an allotment, or a community garden (North America) is a plot of land made available for individual, non-commercial gardening or growing food plants. Such plots are formed by subdividing a piece of land into a few or up to several hundreds of land parcels that are assigned to individuals or families. Such parcels are cultivated individually, contrary to other community garden types where the entire area is tended collectively by a group of people. In countries that do not use the term allotment [garden], a community garden can refer to individual small garden plots as well as to a single, large piece of land gardened collectively by a group of people. The term victory garden is also still sometimes used, especially when a community garden dates back to World War II or I.

The individual size of a parcel generally ranges between 50 and 400 m2, and often the plots include a shed for tools and shelter. The individual gardeners are usually organised in an allotment association, which leases or is granted the land from an owner who may be a public, private or ecclesiastical entity, and who usually stipulates that it be only used for gardening (i.e. growing vegetables, fruits and flowers), but not for residential purposes (this is usually also required by zoning laws). The gardeners have to pay a small membership fee to the association, and have to abide by the corresponding constitution and by-laws. However, the membership entitles them to certain democratic rights.

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Taken in: Sverige / Stockholms Län / Stockholm / Södermalm (show map)

Taken on: August 15, 2014

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