I recently spent a gorgeous late autumn afternoon with my kids at their rented garden allotment in the middle of our village near the Birmingham city centre. Although we were literally less than ten minutes away from the hustle and bustle of shopping, traffic and myriad bus lanes of the city, the urban zen of this beautiful inner-city garden allotment made me feel like I was a million miles away. The idea of inner city garden allotments isn’t new. In fact, this one, Harborne