A LITTLE PATCH OF GROUND

Vegetable Growing Process
Group creative process
Performance

Vegetable Growing Process

To mark the beginning of the project each participant was asked to bring a bag of soil from their own neighbourhood and we combined this soil together to provide the foundations for our collective vegetable patch.

  

Summer Veg of all kinds were planted in a range of unusual and unexpected containers by the group. Elements of permaculture were used to design and tend the garden such as using recycled rainwater, a wormery, companion planting, using liquid organic feeds and locally sourced compost for the plants. As the garden grew the veg was harvested and eaten as part of a weekly group meal prepared by participants.

Group creative process

Each week participants, armed with a small budget, prepared meals to share and as the veg grew the group strengthened.

Issues relating to sustainability, food, climate change and interdependency were explored through the watching of short films and permaculture games.

   

   

Inspired by Deep Ecologist Joanna Macy and her work that re connects, group activities included the honest sharing of fears about the world, ideal versions of the future and imagined letters from descendants.

Letters from future descendants

The sharing of personal stories about moments of connection in nature, special places outdoors, and treasured natural objects were also at the core of the weekly experience.

  

Open camera close camera seeing with new eyes activity

Performance

In the last weeks of the project these shared experiences will be pulled together into the Little Patch of Ground Multi media performance. We have explored different creative ways of translating this transformative personal process into a public event that can be shared with others. Equipped with new knowledge of growing and plants, new awareness of nature and our interdependence, new creative skills, confidence and resilience, the participants will take this unique experience back to their own lives and neighbourhoods as A Little Patch of Ground ripples out.

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