Sowing Seeds: Bean update and yet more wood.

Sowing Seeds is a project initiated by BA Fine Art students Emma Saunders & Duncan Wilson. The project aims to educate school children on sustainable living and healthy eating through forms of experimentation, exploration, enjoyment and play using the social form of gardening.

Having achieved funding from and with support from SIFE, Emma & Duncan are now working alongside the Students Union within the University of Plymouth and the Youth Offending service to create a vegetable garden within College Road Primary School.

Sowing Seeds is also in conversation with Diggin' It! allotment scheme Plymouth, to help inspire the children as to what they can grow. Through this blog Emma & Duncan hope to build an online community where College Road Primary School can converse with other schools with similar intentions including Mylor Bridge Primary School, Cornwall, where Duncan has initiated a similar project.

Sunday, 27 March 2011

Bean update and yet more wood.

I have taken these pictures over three days, what fast growers these are, only planted last week. I all ways feel excitement at the emergence of the first signs of a shoot and the promise of a good harvest. nature at its best, I am sure you will experience this when the seed you are going to sow on Monday begin to germinate.
We will need to decide on how many planters are needed, the size and the design, do you want them to be pot containers or fulled with compost. Think about the advantages and disadvantages of each and we can talk through your ideas and then decide. See you all Monday Duncan