The Sunflower Project is the brainchild of community artist and grower Naomi Hannam. She is the founder of Creative Roots, which runs bespoke craft workshops in ink making, weaving, natural dying, foraging and drawing in nature. However, when all her workshops and teaching sessions were cancelled during the first lockdown, Naomi found work on an organic farm and began dreaming of the day when she could gather some of the sunflowers grown there and share them. Last summer she sold and gave away hundreds of bunches of flowers, enjoying seeing the joy they brought to the people she met. Not content to leave it there though, she has now developed a project with the ambition to connect communities to one another and spread the joy of growing sunflowers.
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Covid has made people see how the food system is dominated by large corporations, say campaigners
The pandemic encouraged an interest in allotments and seed saving. Photograph: Bill Allsopp/Alamy Stock Photo
The pandemic encouraged an interest in allotments and seed saving. Photograph: Bill Allsopp/Alamy Stock Photo
AlexandraGenova
Mon 28 Dec 2020 04.00 EST
Last modified on Wed 30 Dec 2020 04.29 EST
Seeds need to be brought back into public ownership, rather than belonging to a small group of agrochemical companies, say campaigners, after a year in which seed-swapping and saving has reached new heights of popularity.