The Edible Bus Stop presents... Roll out the Barrows

The Edible Bus Stop TM (EBS) has been commissioned by the Southbank Centre to create a sculptural planted installation as part of their summer festival. The installation aims to create engagement, interaction and play as a way of encouraging new audiences into gardening. It will run for 3 months with an expected 8 million visitors to the Southbank Centre over this time. Our installation is located adjacent to the Hayward Gallery, Level 2 Terrace rear of Queen Elizabeth Hall and is visible from Waterloo Bridge.‘Roll out the Barrows’ TM (RotB) is a playful collective of small wheelbarrow gardens, all lined up and ready for action. Inspired by the forms of roller coasters, the plants flow round the space inhabiting it, animating it & creating a place for interaction and engagement. Using art and sculpture to inspire new audiences to get growing their own. Plants often get a rough time in the ever so demanding show garden world, our installation offers them light relief and time to enjoy themselves before answering their calling to go out into the city and help different communities transform their little patch of London. The installation aims to demonstrate the need for green growing spaces in the city, the sanctity of green space in public and to illustrate how much can one actually grow with very little space, whether that be a garden, balcony, window box or even a wheelbarrow. We are working with London based community groups to come and help plant, tend and nurture the installation throughout the 3-month ‘Festival of Neighbourhood’. Each community involved with helping to do so will be awarded a barrow to take back to their plot at the end of the summer to green up their own part of London.Come along and enjoy the installation, help us tend it, and if you are a musician, come along and play for us as we garden on June 9th!Bagsy a Barrow!Volunteers are needed to help garden this installationCalling London based community groups to help garden the Roll out the BarrowsTM plants throughout the installations 3-month duration (May 31st to September 8th). Each community, or dedicated individual, involved will be awarded one of the lovely colourful wheelbarrows with it’s edible contents to take at the end of the summer, so they green up their part of London. Visit www.TheEdibleBusStop.org/RollOutTheBarrows to register your interest.Less than a minute at our launch day CLICK HERE

Author: Mak Gilchrist