Highcliffe Community Allotments Association
Working together to protect and improve our allotments

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About Highcliffe Community Allotments Association

The Highcliffe Community Allotments Association (HCAA), Sheffield, was founded in November 2005 by a group of plotholders concerned at the neglected state of much of the site. Its aim is to maintain, improve and develop the site.

 

Garden fork

The Highcliffe site

These Sheffield allotments were founded during the First World War, and were originally far more extensive than they are now, with over 300 plots. 200 of these reverted to the overgrown woodlands, the Roughs, which now surround the present lower site to the west and south.

 

Around 1970, the reduced allotment area was provided with a new system of drives and some of the plot boundaries were changed. This is the site as we see it today.

 

Download leaflet on the geography, history and geology of the allotments (473Kb Word document) 

 

Download aerial photo 1 Highcliffe allotments

 

Download aerial photo 2 Highcliffe allotments

 

Download aerial photo 3 Lower plots

 

HCAA membership

Membership is open to

The annual membership fee is £5. For details on how to join, please contact Jan on 07929 151688

 

Contact us

Ken Askew (HCAA Secretary)

Tel: 0114 266 6450

e-mail: kengab@bowood12.freeserve.co.uk

 

 

HIGH STORRS PLANT SALE 

Thanks to everybody who donated plants for this event. Sales were a bit slower than in previous years but we still managed to add a worthwhile amount to HCAA funds.

 

SLIDES FROM NICK HAMILTON'S TALK

Nick has very kindly sent us three of the key slides from his talk.

Download Nick's crop rotation list

Download Nick's fresh vegetable calendar

Download Nick's stored vegetable calendar

 

How to become a plotholder

To find out about how to become a plotholder at Highcliffe go the Sheffield City Council Allotments website.

 

Community contacts for HCAA members

Crime reports - please help us to fight against theft and damage on the allotments by reporting incidents, however small, to the police on 101

 

High Storrs School - contact via the Headteacher's PA

Telephone 0114 267 0000