Project overview: encourage those isolated by Covid-19 to nurture a plant, to support their own mental health and contribute to a carbon-neutral planet.
This project completed in summer 2022, and we have been debating how to convert the materials into something more lasting ever since! We thought it could become an annual journal or calendar, or some other physical resource. The separate website closed down at the end of 2024, as the CIC wasdissolved.
As autumn 2026 approaches, we have finally produced a stunning calendar for 2027, called Growing Through the Year, which is available on our new Etsy shop at: https://plant2connect.etsy.com
We also have plans for a journal design, un-dated, that can start with the next season - so there will be 4 versions produced, starting in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. These will also be available via our Etsy shop shortly.
The original project started as a seed of an idea and slowly blossomed into something that we shared with people.
As you can imagine it was all about growing plants, whether that was a herb in a pot on your kitchen shelf, a splash of colour in your window box, or a sapling in a wider space that will grow into a full-size tree. You can grow it for food, for show, as a tribute (a 'leafy legacy') or just to test whether they really do grow better when you talk to them!
We built a separate website in 2021 for this, and highlighted a particular theme each month. The supporting information for some of these is still provided on the sub-pages here, but the website has since been closed down.