Communities of the Soil

The Communities of the Soil project are going through new and exciting phases. After a 7 month period of community consultations, conversations and visits, the project has moved into “broad brushstrokes design” with participants writing and drawing what they would like to see around themes of “food growing”, “organisational models”, “sanctuary, belonging and wellbeing”. An overall theme for Communities of the Soil is “Finding home through a connection with the soil”.

COS like we like calling it is a collaborative project run by The Apricot Centre and Diversity Business Incubator funded by the Community Fund as part of the late Queen’s Jubilee. It is sometimes daunting to hang-out in certainty together, but slowly and surely, through sharing feedback, a design for Stonehouse is emerging.

With our Communities of the Soil project, we hosted numerous activities such as a series of trips to the Apricot Centre in Totnes, which was an opportunity to connect different generations together, create some team bonding/building moments and immerse ourselves with mother nature to truly understand the meaning behind the question we ask ourselves; what is your soil?

During each visits, we exchanges stories, shared fresh food made by the team at the Apricot Centre, as well as making vertical grow bags with a method given to us by Louise Wainwright who founded Real IPM Real Farming in Kenya with her husband, to which we hope to create more workshops with the community to implement this.

We have a few events happening, check out our website www.communitiesofthesoil.co.uk or find out more and get involved with us by sending your email to receive a monthly newsletter or subscribing to @communitiesofthesoil on Instagram.

This project is a partnership between @dbi_uk and @apricotcentre
By Diversity Business incubator & The Apricot Centre