Salad Box project at Common Growth

Here a group of families with young children are participating in Common Growth's salad box project. (Common Growth is the community garden that I help to run on Sandbourne Road, Telegraph Hill)

The project is based on reclaimed fruit boxes that have been taken from Lewisham market. We have cleaned and painted them and lined them with heavy-duty plastic.

Then they are ready to be decorated by the children! We paint our boxes and together we fill them with compost and plant our salad seeds.

Here is a video of the recent open day at Common Growth, where I talk a bit about the project:

Eventually we will donate some of the salad boxes to local elderly people, so that they can enjoy growing fresh healthy salads in their own homes.