Gardening is another great way of getting active, and growing your own food can also help to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Growing fruit and veg can be hard work, but it can also be very rewarding and a good way to get some exercise as well.

There are allotments sites in Bexhill, Battle and Rye that can be rented for as little as £20 a year. More details about the allotment sites and how to hire them re available from the Rother District Council website.

You can find out more about food growing on the Garden Organic and Royal Horticultural Society websites.

If you want to set up a food growing scheme in a school or with a community group the following websites have lots of ideas and step-by step guidance:

• Growing grub
• Growing schools
• Schools Organic Network
• Womens Environmental Network

The following sites have useful information for allotment societies:

• Allotments Regeneration Initiative
• Allotments UK
• National Society of Allotment and Leisure Gardeners