Little sunshines keep Oban beautiful
As part of Keep Oban Beautiful’s big spring clean, organisers are handing out sunflower seeds to youngsters taking part.
As part of Keep Oban Beautiful’s big spring clean, organisers are handing out sunflower seeds to youngsters taking part.
There is a mindfulness and meditative quality to collecting seeds, to drying them out, to storing them, carefully labelled and putting them away for a winter hibernation ready to bring out next spring and start the process all over again.
Covid has halted Seed For Life’s usual fundraising activities prompting the charity to make a ‘Big Ask’ for much-needed support.
Mull Native Woodland Group was so inspired after taking part in a Kew Garden seed bank project that they decided to find a piece of land to grow their own trees from seed and re-plenish the island’s Atlantic rainforest.
Mr Alsop, who started the feed for life Seed For Life project, will spend 10 days fact-finding, looking for ways of putting the money to best use.