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, 28 March 2011

Exhausted!

Today Duncan and I had our first teaching day in College Road, and my'o'my what a energetic bunch they all are!
We have planted a range of beans, lettuces, spinach and other salad crops to start off with and also set our first lot of researching for each class to do.
All the kids seemed to have a fantastic day and with the weather holding up it meant we could do all our planting outside in the quad. We managed to inject even more excitement, if this was at all possible, about the allotment when the children and teachers found out there was an ice cream at stake for the winning class!
A big thank you to all the teachers and assistants who helped Duncan and I through our first nerve wracking day - I for one have certainly had a fantastic time!
Look forward to seeing you next Tuesday.
Emma.
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