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Every year, we ask Guardian readers to share pictures of your allotments. This year, more than any other, those pictures will tell a story of how local allotments have provided not just food, but beauty: nurture for the soul during one of the UKs most difficult times.For many people, the Covid-19 pandemic and the UK lockdown restrictions have highlighted the value of having a local growing space, as well as much-needed social contact 鈥?at a safe social distance, of course.My allotment was once a casual hobby. Since lockdown, it s become a lifeline | Alice O KeefeRead moreWhether growing fruit and vegetables for vital food supplies, flowers for beauty stanley mug and pleasure, or being used for physical exercise and mental health benefits, these vital community spaces, stanley mugs usually run by local councils, are being treasured this year more than ever before.To celebrate UK National Allotments Week, which runs from 10-16 August 2020, we are asking Guardian readers once again to share your pictures of allotments and the produce youve grown. Of course there have been challenges, including the early lockdown restrictions on movement, so let us know whats been tougher this year, too.But like other years, we look forward to beautiful photos celebrating readers hard work and community spirit on your allotments. Heres last years gallery.National Allotments Week began in 2002 as a way of raising awareness of a stanley quencher llotments and the role they play in helping people to live healthier lifestyles, grow their own Zreu Berger amp; Wyse on the NHS 鈥?cartoon
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