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, 19 April 2011

Progress report


Emma and I are working hard making the planters, seven for College Road primary School and possibly six extra-to be used in our exhibition. The material we are using is used wood from disassembled pallets, this is labor intensive work, taking care to remove nails and not damage the  wood.These pallets are collected from local businesses free of charge, recycling in place of dumping them. I have been sowing seeds at home where I can keep a look out for the dreaded  slugs and being able to water them when necessary. Hopefully these will be ready for planting out on 28 April so there is plenty to do on the day. Emma and I will be demonstrating transplanting seedlings to pots for planting out.  If time permits, we will be assessing the plant boxes that surround the covered area in the playground, one for each class to plant up and take care of (remember the prize). As you can see from the photographs we have been sowing seeds, there will be plenty to do.The next stage for Emma I  will be to organizing the creation of the garden, using the strong muscle power of student volunteers from the Plymouth University plus parents and grandparents, more on this and the garden club later.
 Till the next time Duncan
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