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Inside the Summer 2009 magazine
Editor, Sue Herdman, introduces the current edition:
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To the bemusement of passers-by one morning last February, something was going on in the back plot of our London office.
There was Director-General Fiona Reynolds in her wellies, Chairman Simon Jenkins eyeing a spade and gardening guru Monty Don giving some freshly dug carrots a dusting down. It was, naturally, all in a good cause.
The following day the story was out: the Trust was to create 1,000 new allotment plots to help fuel the grow-your-own revolution. ‘If every organisation and company did the same,’ Monty commented, ‘it would transform the health and well-being of the nation; in fact,’ he added, ‘I think all politicians should have an allotment.’
So, as the London team tend the shoots on their new plot, we thought we’d keep the story going in the magazine (see our allotment feature on page 50), especially as this is launch-time for our Food Glorious Food summer campaign. The focus will be local, seasonal, home-grown produce, and Trust properties everywhere will be sizzling with food events and great ideas. Whether you’re a chutney novice or a seasoned beetroot fancier, come along and join in.
  
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From earthy pleasures to a touch of the exotic: let Dan Cruickshank guide you around the extraordinary interiors of Khadambi Asalache’s atmospheric London home. Khadambi, a Kenyan poet, novelist, craftsman and sometime Treasury official, donated the house to the Trust on his death in 2006. Now, discussions are under way as to how to give this delicate, unique dwelling a future.
You may well never have seen rooms like these before. The story starts on page 28. And Anthony Lambert reports on the happy story of the recently launched International National Trusts Organisation. Did you know that we now have our equivalent in Bermuda, India, the Bahamas and British Columbia, to touch on a few? And it all started in 1895 with the formation of this, our own National Trust for England, Wales and Northern Ireland. As allotment keepers across the nation know: from small beginnings, great things can grow.
Sue Herdman, Editor
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