Front Yard Company - Blog

NEW! Elvis Cyclestand

dan — Wed, 12 May 2010 17:12:39 +0000

An elegant alternative to the dreary boltdown ‘toast-rack’ often found at stations and workplaces. This stand is robust, very secure cycleparking for public places, schools and workplaces (& amongst other things, it doesn’t trap litter like the ‘toast-rack’). Contact us for more details/prices.

Tulips!

dan — Mon, 10 May 2010 13:33:47 +0000

This is when it gets exciting:
taken to their full potential, PlantLocks secure bicycles outside, and offer the whole street much more than is possible with a standard concreted-in hoop.

Credit: Chris Kenyon

Too cold to cycle…

dan — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:55:10 +0000

Currently we sell PlantLocks to cyclists and businesses in Germany, and in Sweden there’s been growing interest both for cycleparking and buggy/pushchair parking. But what to do about the winter permafrost? We need advice on local ice-hardy perennials.

Design Museum _ continuing

dan — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:58:35 +0000

‘Grow Your Own’

dan — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:17:44 +0000

Available from us & the Design Museum Shop, London. Comes in printed and hand-stitched kraftpaper bag (for re-use) with vegetable-growing calendar on back.
£25 + £2 p&p

Alan Bennett & PlantLocks in Camden Town

dan — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:10:23 +0000

Nice to see him cycling around familiar streets.
Delicatessen Melrose & Morgan requested these PlantLocks from Camden Council, and did a deal where they got the cycleparking they wanted, in return for the shop maintaining the planting.

PlantLock nominated for Design Museum ‘Design of the Year’.

dan — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:47:34 +0000

PlantLock is up for The Design Museum’s ‘Design of the Year’, and
The Front Yard Company – Finalist in Environmental Awards.

The garden museum, Lambeth

dan — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:30:53 +0000

The garden museum, adjacent to Lambeth Palace, has PlantLocks for its visitors arriving by bicycle. Helen Maurer mentioned the planting to us, so we got down there to have a look: a luscious seasonal mix of flowers and food await you.
And your bike will still be there when you come back out of the museum.

Bulbs for Spring

dan — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:31:24 +0000

“The plantlock is wonderful – I’ve just planted it up with tulips for
the spring”. Meghan

Oxford Cycle Workshop Training

dan — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:01:48 +0000

“Our PlantLocks have made us many many friends with the locals. They really communicate our values. We have grown a crazy mix of herbs, strawberies and cabbage!”

OCWT ran a PlantLock planting project with Iffley Mead School, Oxford, whose pupils have moderate learning difficulties.

Oxford Cycle Workshop hope to offer a PlantLock supply and aftercare service with RESTORE, an Oxfordshire mental health charity.