Do Any CAMRA Folks have an Allotment Garden?

If you've live in Europe, you'll know the places. Patchworked stretches of common land on the edge of suburbs, towns or villages. Each patchwork is a garden plot that is tended by a particular person from the community. Most people grow vegetables; some grow flowers; some treat the allotment as an excuse to lounge around and gasbag with all the other folks who are trying to get some work done. Allotment gardens have a very long history, dating back to common-land times, of course. Recently, around the world, they've begun to burgeon, for all sorts of good reasons. (Really Good) Artists like Jeremy Deller have even set them up as complex, generous kinds of relational art projects. (See the attachments, below, for various accounts of the various kinds and uses of allotments.) The present-day urban 'guerilla gardening' trend is different, but closely related in sentiment. (The guerilla gardening strikes are happening all over Redfern/Alexandria where I live. You walk out one morning, and someone has planted beautifully unauthorised flowers or herbs in the median strip, along the footpath or in disused parklands.)

Anyway ... I'm wondering if folks in the CAMRA regions (or anywhere else in Australia for that matter) are involved in allotment gardening? If yes ... can you tell us about it? Is the allotment a cultural asset? How so?