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.

Wednesday, 30 March 2011

Wonky Planters

I have spent the day down at the studios in Royal William Yard, with the absence of Duncan i have been creating some slightly more wonky planter boxes but have also had a fantastic tutorial!
I found out that it looks like for Mine and Duncan's degree show we have the first space right by the entrance of the exhibition. This is fab news for us as we need lots of footfall to encourage conversations and give out seeds and information on our project. Plus if the College Rd Primary Children can make it, it means lots of people for them to talk to about their gardening books!
Also i have been trying to recreate my own personal website, which is in dire need of updating! Its a long slow process and i have got through a lot of chocolate in the process.
I am really looking forward to next weeks visit to the school, where we will have about 10-15 minutes in each class catching up on how things are growing, and what the children's feelings are towards the project so far. I think I will also bring in some cooked things that involve vegetables to inspire the children and teachers about the wonderful things they can do with their 5-a-day!
Over & Out,
Emma
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