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Sowing the seeds of revolution

Sharing land to grow food: what could be simpler? Even as demand for allotments outstrips supply, a pioneering scheme could offer fresh hope.

It might not be Michelle Obama's new White House kitchen garden, or the Queen's newly dug allotment at Buckingham Palace, but a sorry-looking Georgian walled garden near Stirling is slowly coming back to life.