A Bit of Earth
This project is in partnership with Can Do South Yorkshire, Sheffield Climate Alliance, The Festival of Debate, and Opus Independents. We will also be working with community gardens across South Yorkshire – watch this space!
Our little bits of earth – those patches of stubborn buddleia and grass emerging from old carparks, our local parks, or the wide hills of the Peak District – have given us a lot this past year. They have been places to escape to, to breathe in, and out. They have given us birdsong, hopeful snowdrops, and handfuls of blackberries, and absorbed our carbon dioxide. But how often do we pause to acknowledge these everyday gifts? In this project we want to create an opportunity for you to celebrate the green spaces which got us through this past year, and a chance to offer back some gifts of our own.
“Might I,” quavered Mary, “might I have a bit of earth? … To plant seeds in—to make things grow—to see them come alive,” (from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett).
In exchange for stories and images of your daily walks, your unexpected encounters with wildlife, and your adventures into unexplored local green spaces, we shall send you a mysterious package containing seeds and a map to your very own ‘bit of earth’ to create your own secret garden with your neighbours.
Our little bits of earth – those patches of stubborn buddleia and grass emerging from old carparks, our local parks, or the wide hills of the Peak District – have given us a lot this past year. They have been places to escape to, to breathe in, and out. They have given us birdsong, hopeful snowdrops, and handfuls of blackberries, and absorbed our carbon dioxide. But how often do we pause to acknowledge these everyday gifts? In this project we want to create an opportunity for you to celebrate the green spaces which got us through this past year, and a chance to offer back some gifts of our own.
“Might I,” quavered Mary, “might I have a bit of earth? … To plant seeds in—to make things grow—to see them come alive,” (from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett).
In exchange for stories and images of your daily walks, your unexpected encounters with wildlife, and your adventures into unexplored local green spaces, we shall send you a mysterious package containing seeds and a map to your very own ‘bit of earth’ to create your own secret garden with your neighbours.
This project is in partnership with Can Do South Yorkshire, Sheffield Climate Alliance, The Festival of Debate, and Opus Independents. We will also be working with community gardens across South Yorkshire – watch this space!