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Eden supports creative craft programme for schools
At Eden we’re firm believers in using our imagination to turn something old into something wonderful and new; after all, we did turn an old clay pit into a global garden! In this spirit, we’re supporting Start Imagining, an exciting new creative craft programme for school children that is encouraging kids to learn how to make [...]
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Free tools for school and community gardens in Cornwall
Budding gardeners, young and old, are being given the chance to win sets of special tools. The trowels, forks, hoes and more have been recycled through Eden’s Tool Shed initiative, which gives inmates at prisons around the country the opportunity to learn new skills. The project has been running since last spring, when we teamed [...]
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Why we love being hairy
We’ve been growing more and more of our plants in these great hairy pots over the last few years, and we love them, which is why we’ve just added them to our online shop. The pots are ethically made in Sri Lanka using the main waste product from coconut farms (coir fibre) and organic latex [...]
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One man’s junk is another man’s play materials
Phil Waters, Eden’s Play Project Coordinator, casts his memory back to a summer in the 70s spent on a dump – and argues for simple play spaces that let children invent, create and imagine. As Eden celebrates its 10th birthday I’m drawn to reflect on my own 10th year. It was the late 70s, when [...]
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Luke Seall sells us the concept of bartering
Luke Seall, the enterprising young man behind bartering experiment Project 1p, sets out to prove that one man’s rubbish is another man’s treasure. I was always told that if I looked after my pennies, the pounds would look after themselves. Recently I decided to explore this idea properly, so I came up with Project 1p, [...]
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Martin Dorey: The beach is the very best classroom
Beaches do so much for us, says camper van man Martin Dorey. They offer food, beauty, space, waves and even a living classroom. Wouldn’t it be nice if we each gave a little something back? As a surfer and coastal dweller I’ve become ever closer to the beach near my house in recent years. In the summer it [...]
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A chair with a story to tell
The lovely people at Sylvantutch, who make recycled furniture in the Welsh village of Corris, have given Eden a very special gift. The beautiful chair was made of reclaimed oak fence posts last year. Craftsman Nick Bullen, and his colleagues at Sylvantutch, hauled it up the Welsh mountain Cadair Idris and placed it near the [...]
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Recycled shelter at Eden shortlisted for award
We’re chuffed to hear that a shelter made of waste tyres at Eden has been shortlisted for an Architecture Journal award. The amazing structure, created by members of Architecture Sans Frontières-UK during their visit this summer, was made in just four days using only a huge pile of used tyres and a mountain of old [...]
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Time of Gifts calendar: Day 13: Who gives ‘rubbish’ Christmas presents?
Here are some more ‘rubbish’ Christmas presents that we sell in the Eden Project Shop – they really are made mostly of rubbish. These bags from the Bottletop charity are handmade by linking hundreds of recycled ring-pulls together in a crochet formation. They are made by people from a community project in Salvador, Brazil, using ring-pulls [...]
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Eden keeps recycling through the deluge
Even as we’re having to get rid of stuff that’s been damaged by the water we’re making sure we recycle as much as possible. We’ve made our way through buildings that were under several inches of water, including the Core, the Shop and the Visitor Centre, to help clear up and salvage everything we can. [...]
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