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.

Tuesday, 22 March 2011

A Hard Days Work!

Today Duncan & I have been breaking up pallets, in order to recycle the wood for raised beds and planting boxes. We have been doing it all day and it is back breaking! Who knew pallets were put together in such a sturdy way.
Now with 6 or 7 pallets down, 3 bags of fire wood and a load of 'good' usable wood, we are ready for a big cuppa and a nice slice of cake!

Also we had a meeting with the Youth Offending service, however unfortunately its not looking promising that we will have as much help as we first anticipated. So it looks like there will be a lot more days like today coming our way!

Happy Gardening,
Emma & Duncan
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