As part of our 'Eat a Metre' topic we took a trip to the floating ballast seed garden at Bristol Harbour and Arnolfini.
We learned all about the history of Bristol from an amazing storyteller on a boat journey along the harbour.
The garden is a project from Brazilian artist Maria Thereza Alves. Between 1680 and the early 1900's ships' ballast - earth, stones and gravel from trade boats from all over the world used to weigh down the vessel as it docked - was offloaded into the river at Bristol. The ballast contained the seeds of plants from wherever the ship had sailed
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| Boarding the 'Flower of Bristol'. |
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Learning the history of Bristol.
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We also got to look around the Arnolfini art gallery, get all creative and produce our own works of art in our groups.
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| Getting all creative in the Arnolfini. |
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