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Special allotment helps win Michelin stars 
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Monday, August 20 2007 12:10:16 by Editor
A Nottinghamshire allotment has a surprisingly prestigious list of customers for its plants, it has been revealed.
A site in Chilwell, run by the local council, is being used by a Michelin-starred chef, who has ordered specialist vegetables, salad leaves, herbs and edible flowers.
John and Hilary Lane, who run a small business known as Fresh Garden Produce from the plot, told This Is Nottingham that the unlikely relationship began during a chance conversation with chef Sat Bains five years ago.
"I was delivering a lot of boxes of salad, which used to come from a salad grower in Scotland," said Mr Lane.
"As I got to know him I said 'show me what's in there'. I told him the varieties of stuff and he said 'how do you know that?' I told him I had grown it myself and he said, 'If you can grow stuff like that you can start to supply me. Within two months I was supplying him."
It was vegetables from the Lanes which helped Mr Bains to his triumph on BBC2's Great British Menu - an event which caused bookings and demand to be greatly increased for the allotment holders.
As well as to the chef, the couple also supply vegetable boxes to local households, the couple told the newspaper.
Britain celebrated its National Allotments Week last week, with events and demonstrations - including a special plot set up in London's St James' Park - held up and down the country.
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