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, 22 May 2011

day 2 planting

Emma and I enjoyed another good day planting out lots of vegatables and flowers years 5 and 6 worked hard and appeared to have planted more plants than the years 1,2 and 4 on the previous day.Well done all.There are much more to be planted so if you have any spare time get out there planting its your garden.
      The two larger plots will be boarded out to make raised beds so next year they need to be filled with top soil or good compost.Emma and I are back in teaching art with years 1 and 6 next week starting monday 23rd May next week.Below are more photos of  everyone spending time in the garden.Well done keep up the good work.
   Duncan and Emma





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