Project created in collaboration with Tommy Dodd.
This project brings together education and practical experience as a form of rehabilitation for inmates on the Isle of Sheppey. The programme is grounded in saline agriculture. Inmates will be taught about changing environmental conditions and how it affects the crop farming industry, while cultivating their own allotments to practice regenerative agriculture. A restaurant which serves the fresh produce brings inmates back into the public sphere and can help fund the programme. Produce and seeds are also sold to the public through a farm shop.
Desired Outcomes: 1. Reduce the percentage of prison inmates re-offending by providing valuable skillsets for future employment, and social integrity. 2. Cultivate plant seed genomes which have adjusted to saline conditions. These seeds would help solve wider issues in agriculture and result in far higher levels of usable land for farmers.
