Watch & help 'A New Kind of Garden' grow..., 25th August 2009.
The Useful Arts are pleased to - belatedly - announce our latest work with Nina & Karen at somewhere, for their community gardening project in Stratford, East London. What Will The Harvest Be? is an experiment in creating a productive vegetable garden for the community, started from some waste ground that the local residents wanted to see developed.
Over the next 3 years the process of growing and working together will be document via the website, and will build up anecdotal experiences from those involved in the garden, and document what's involved in growing your own in a shared urban environment.
We are particularly happy with the webcam archive and timelapse player, which is still a bit of an experiment and we've got some refinements to do on the interface. The plant database is, similarly, coming along nicely.