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.

Sunday, 17 April 2011

SIFE Promotional Dinner.




I have just been emailed over images from the promotional dinner Duncan and I took part in on 31st March, so i thought i would share them with you all. The dinner was to raise awareness and money for SIFE's main project START which helps refugees in Plymouth. Nevertheless lots of smaller projects such as Sowing Seeds were invited along to share some of the limelight and expose our projects to new audiences. There were lots of silly games, and a plentyfull amount of food and overall the evening raised over a thousand pounds for START. Duncan and I met lots of new people which we hope to turn into friendly faces to help out with the project. Emma.
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