Wild Hive Ecological Educational Collective is helping us to grow a new HCF team. Welcome to Green Team@HCF! Wild Hive founder, Jo Hutchison, explains how it works.
Find the story of Wild Hive here and about the Wild Hive outreach projects here.
After quite a journey to date, Wild Hive is delighted to have come full circle back to Highbridge Community Farm from which our educational outreach initiative originally stemmed.
We’re very excited to have been offered a couple of good sized patches on Jim’s team’s plots – particularly because the children now have their own area right beside their play-hut and pollinator garden – in which to grow their own! These areas will amply fit all four of our Local Grow Packs, and hopefully leave a little space for other things the children might wish to try.
Wild Hive Collective CIC is helping the Green Team @HCF to form, and, whilst trialling the Local Grow Packs, will offer sessions to support and monitor the growing. The idea is that with a little guidance and initial steer, the children will gradually organise themselves, manage their activities, and develop a sense of agency with space of their own in the heart of Highbridge Community Farm.
Certainly in the initial stages, it will be helpful to have some adult helpers for input and guidance (when wanted!). If you are a stakeholder and either you or you child(ren) are in joining the Green Team @HCF and/or supporting Wild Hive in any way, please complete this form.
The intention is that Wild Hive Collective CIC will use the sowing, growing & harvesting of the Local Grow Packs as an opportunity to help this team of younger ‘farm-hands’ (currently HCF stakeholder children only) to gather together and to sow, harvest and enjoy meals that they have grown, whilst they naturally become the ecological growers and nature custodians of the future.
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Find Wild Hive on Facebook and Instagram. If you’re an HCF stakeholder and you’d like to know more about Green Team@HCF or to get involved, find Jo at the farm or fill in this form.