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, 3 July 2011

Its been a while!

Hello all,

Sorry its been so long, Duncan and I have been having a well deserved break after the degree show. Its amazing how much this degree takes it out of you!
Anyway, Duncan and I are back in school on wednesday this week to do some pruning, drop off some planter boxes that were used in the degree show and do some general tending to the garden with the children.
The prize for the best garden is decided soon, so everyone needs to be helping out and weeding and pruning with us to make sure you stand the best chance of winning! Don't forget the winning team gets an ice cream each and the winning teacher gets a day off! Yipee!

Really looking forward to seeing you all and how the garden has progressed.
See you soon,
Emma
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