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Festival Lumière 2019, Bong Joon-ho présente "Les gens d'un bidonville" de Bae Chang-ho, à l'Institut Lumière
This Local Places for Nature Food Development project was designed and built by ground staff from the East Team from Newport City Homes. It is located in Alway and was a site for fly tipping. Most of this was cleared off site beforehand and was a blank slate. 60% of the perimeter is housing and 40% is a hedge. Once the vegetation was strimmed, the soil was shown to be very poor quality with lots of historic litter including broken glass and cans etc. This meant growing in the soil would be very dangerous and we decided all growing would be done in raised beds. This project came with 3 raised beds, but we managed to get a hold of a load of spare sleepers from Newport City homes and eventually built one extra large bed and a very long bed with the 2 x trellis. The trellis would also hide the shed at the north end of the space. We also built from these sleepers, five 2.4 m long benches which could sit a whole class of children. We also covered almost 40m2 of the area in wildflower turf and hope to increase the coverage of the area with seeds from the turf collected in Autumn 2022. The day we installed the seating area, it pured of rain and we ended up putting muddy footprints on the paths outside the space. These paths are access for the adjacent bungalows which house disabled tenants. This was a risk, so we needed to clean the paths, and cover the growing space with stones. With enough stone, we'd be able to mix this into the ground and create a firm surface to walk on. As such, we moved 14 tonnes of chippings from the car park, uphill to the site in a day (8th November). Lovell's, one of NCH's contractors, donated time and materials to build a concrete base for the shed and green house and a week later, we built these structures on the base. Finally, we planted some of the plants. built strimming guards for the apple trees (coming later in December), tidied up the site and engraved our names into one of the benches. Much fun was had by all. Good luck Newport City Homes. - Chris Partridge, 29th Nov, 2021.