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.

Monday, 21 March 2011

Disappointment at The Ideal Home show.

This weekend I excitedly caught the coach up to London to visit The Ideal Home Show at Earls Court. I thought with lots of different sections including Ideal Gardens & Ideal Food, it would surely be a fab place to visit to get inspiration for the Sowing Seeds project.

I must admit though i left feeling slightly disappointed with the culture The Ideal Home Show promoted. Instead of working for your Ideal Home and making it your own through the handmade, handcrafted and homegrown, it was instead a filled with exhibition stalls selling thousands of pounds worth of swimming pools, hot tubs, and sheds the size of my Basement flat!

Surely in our current economic climate we should be promoting ways of affordably and realistically creating our ideal homes. Not homes that are full of the latest trends from the high street that give the allusion that your life will be better with the latest shape of vase or paint colour. Instead i feel we should be promoting homes that are unique to our individual tastes, talents and style.

I appreciate not everyone has the time or skills to sew a cushion themselves or start their own vegetable patch, but most people have some skills they can utilise, or at least an interest in learning something new.

Rant over, i am off to sow some seeds!
Emma
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