Food campaigner giving out free meals has allotment “destroyed” overnight as vandals poured salt over the land to stop anything from being cultivated there.<br /><br />Carly Burd had transformed her garden in Harlow, Essex, into an allotment to provide free organic fruit and vegetables to those on benefits, pensioners people on low incomes.<br /><br />In tears, she said: “It means everything I’ve planted won’t grow. And I can’t replant on it because it won’t grow. So all the hours and hours and hours of work we’ve put in are now dead.”<br /><br />Ms Burd, who has multiple sclerosis and lupus and is herself on disability benefit, said she had fed 1,613 people during the cost-of-living crisis.
