Guerrilla Gardening Seed-Bombs
Earlier on in the year, I was in the process of applying to the Saltire Scholarship programme, which allows internship opportunities to those in their final years of university. One step of this process included an interview where I had to give a presentation to a group about something I was interested in.
I decided to base my presentation on guerrilla gardening, which is a technique of re-wilding that includes spreading native wild-flower seeds in an anarchic fashion in order to help out the local wildlife. As part of this presentation, I decided to make a batch of seed-bombs to hand out at the end of my presentation, so that everyone could get involved straight away. Seed-bombs are small balls made from soil, native wild-flower seeds, flour and water, and they just need to be thrown onto a stretch of barren land, where they will split open and disperse their seeds. The amount I gave out that day will produce up to 150 squared metres of native Scottish wild-flowers come summertime.
As a design student, I also decided to make sustainable packaging and labelling for the seed bombs as well.
