Our environmental education programmes and public artworks and gardens span over three decades, working extensively with schools, colleges, local authorities, museums and communities in urban and green settings, with the aim of enhancing our relationship with the natural world.
Learning for Life worked with over 20 schools offering seasonal workshops for children, and with community members. At Frith Wood we created an Iron Age roundhouse for our education centre, running courses in coppicing, green woodworking, bushcraft, ancient architecture techniques, ceramics and outdoor cooking, funded by the national lottery, for which we were awarded planning by ashford council. Here, we also worked with youth justice services and migrant groups.
Our Finsbury Park ‘Elm Tree of Life’ ceramic mural made in collaboration with carrie Reichardt is a social and environmental history, created following outreach workshops with a wide range of community members and research into the natural history of the area.
We were Lead gardeners for Feast on the Bridge over several years making food growing gardens in over 50 schools all over the city each year, from City Hall to Coin St and beyond.
A mural collaboration with @atmstreetart in Hyde park was commissioned by @missioninvertebrate
@theroyalparks and celebrated the flora and fauna of the parkland. See Atm’s recent appearance on @bbcspringwatch.
At Cogges agricultural museum we ran ‘Nurture and Learning’, a 2yr residency to create food gardens and outdoor cooking with families and hard to reach young people. We created a thatched kitchen and ran residential weekends exploring history and landscape.
In Chalgrove we made clay ovens; building and baking, and cooking on the fire, and created a nature reserve where we carried out mapping and habitat surveys with schools and community, and created sculptures depicting the red kites thriving in this area.
In Gunnersbury park and museum we created a nature reserve, planting hedging and wildflowers, and made sculptures and artworks with young people in the youth justice service as part of Arts Awards with Ealing council.
