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Welcome to the 'Digging for Health' blog, a record of the development of a social enterprise project supported by Engage UnLtd and Age Concern, Dorchester, UK. We have been allocated a community allotment (thanks to the Volunteer Centre, Dorset), which is very overgrown and run down. This blog will provide a history of the development of the allotment, as we return it to a fully functioning and productive resource that aims to not only produce vegetables but also raise social capital (what's social capital?...read the blog!). This blog belongs to Fran Biley. This views expressed here are his, and he takes full responsibility for them. They may not represent the views of the organisations that are mentioned here.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

What has Japanese poetry got to do with allotments?

At a recent short creative writing course, we were doing exercises in writing haiku, short Japanese poems that follow a three-line, 5-7-5 syllable format. One of the students, Hattie, who is also linked to this allotment project and will be writing a Masters degree thesis on the values of horticultural therapy, wrote the following haiku (thanks Hattie!), that describes the project and what we are trying to achieve. I think its rather good, what do you think:

Your eyes remain black.
Spring sun shines onto your wheels,
the seeds are growing.

1 comment:

  1. Ha ha ha thats me!! You should all try making your own it was fun :)

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