Plotting for a Greener Future ; Bristol Is Full of Hidden Gems and in Totterdown, Just a Short Distance From the Wells Road, Is Another Such Tucked-Away Place - with Panoramic Views Across the City and On to the Somerset Countryside Beyond.

Evening Post (Bristol, UK) › April 18, 2008

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Bristol is full of hidden gems and in Totterdown, just a short distance from the Wells Road, is another such tucked-away place - with panoramic views across the city and on to the Somerset countryside beyond.

It is here at the Perrett Park allotments that author and environmentalist James Russell comes to tend to his strawberries, artichokes, onions and rocket in a small patch of land he and his family transformed from an overgrown bramble patch three years ago.

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Plotting for a Greener Future ; Bristol Is Full of Hidden Gems and in Totterdown, Just a Short Distance From the Wells Road, Is Another Such Tucked-Away Place - with Panoramic Views Across the City and On to the Somerset Countryside Beyond.

Although not looking as strictly structured as the neighbouring plot, whose step farming methods would put the Incas to shame, the ground is lovingly cared for by James with the hel...

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