THE SEED OF LIFE GARDEN

AN OUTDOOR CLASSROOM FOR YOUR SCHOOL

THE SEED OF LIFE GARDEN

The Seed of Life Garden has a round checkerboard pattern alternating walking areas that are bricked or mulched with planted beds.

The concentric rings determine the kind of plant.

The center contains flowers, the next ring out is for culinary herbs, the third ring is for therapeutic plants, and the outermost ring contains food.

 Residential Use of the Seed of Life Garden

 

 Residential Use of the Seed of Life Garden

The beauty and simplicity of placing the Seed of Life Garden in a residential setting is that it offers a feature element that provides thematic consistency across your landscape. The strong geometry can be used as a focal point allowing you to extend outdoor dining areas, patios, hammock stands, orchards or horseshoe pits in a balanced and cohesive manner. No matter what outdoor feature you add, when you tie your lines to the core Seed of Life Garden pattern; the result will always be a unified design… and nothing pleases the eye more than cohesion, unity, and balance.

 Public Parks Utilize the Seed of Life Garden

2017

 

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Gardening with inmates is so rewarding. We together with the Recycling Department created the Full Circle Demonstration Garden to share the Seed of Life Garden with our community.

The garden also featured composting systems and a solar irrigation timer.

 
 

Full Circle Demonstration Garden

Nevada City, California 2018

 Public or Community use of the Seed of Life Garden

Your use of the Seed of Life Garden in a school, community, jail, church, or any other public institutional setting has a terrific chance of becoming a successful and rewarding project. Social distancing can be maintained in an outdoor setting while the gardeners educate, entertain, and even rehabilitate one another. The Seed of Life Garden is a great venue for musical performances or outdoor yoga classes, group therapy sessions, poetry readings, or for acquiring basic life skills. In Nevada County California we used it as the focal point of our “Full Circle Demonstration Garden”. Multiple composting methods were built and demoed by our local Boy Scout troop. Our recycling team created a self guided brochure tour featuring all this (plus!) fire safe plants via identification markers and a map. Inmates from the local jail provided the labor and local businesses contributed the funds and materials. The kiosk and pergola were built by a local artist carpenter with recycled materials.

 Flower of Life Homeless Community Plan

 

THE FLOWER OF LIFE HOMELESS COMMUNITY PLAN

As I became more familiar with working with the Seed of Life Garden it began to grow on me. As a visionary’s seed there were expansive exponential possibilities here! This Seed of Life Garden is the seed pattern that grows quite organically into the Flower of Life Village.

Creativity caught fire (as it tends to do) and when our Covid-19 lockdowns arrived I decided that my Quarantine 2020 Project was to build a diorama.

I hereby present the Flower of Life Homeless Community Plan.

Each Cluster of dwellings share a Seed of Life Garden and this centralizing of the group focus on a common garden is essential to building this particular community. To have a common focus on an actual place on the earth, on the soil itself, on a common garden…this is what makes this homeless community plan distinct. This has the potential to be a Creative Development Project that offers homeless people a place to drop down roots and grow. Their address can be permanent and people’s living conditions can steadily improve. The health of the Seed of Life Garden within each Cluster will reflect the health of the people involved. The gardens themselves will provide floral beauty, spices can be grown that remind folks of home, the garden will offer preventative remedies like echinacea and garlic, and provide an old fashioned corn, squash & bean patch.

This “common ground” focus on the Seed of Life Garden (design is copyrighted) will provide a sense of purpose and place to the residents… and a solid measure of a cluster’s wellbeing. It is a built in measure that holds residents accountable for contributing. As clusters mature over time they are supported in upgrading their emergency Homing Platform to a MicroHouse that can support the future addition of a second story.

TrailerClusters can provide temporary transitional shelters as residents upgrade their Clusters into permanent MicroHouses.

Marcia Louise Fudge, our new leader of HUD, has inspired me. I longed to present this design as an official 2020 Creative Development Project when I listened to her acceptance speech.

My goal is to raise enough capital to duplicate the diorama. I would like to make this diorama available to assist rural communities in addressing the homelessness crisis in the United States. This project could further serve to assist in creating healthy refugee communities internationally. I want to make it affordable for communities to purchase the diorama as a tool to aid in the planning of their own Flower of Life village. The scale of the project can fluctuate according to the needs of the people and animals in their care.

flower of life diorama

The Flower of Life Homeless Community Diorama

This diorama of the Flower of Life Homeless Community Plan features “Homing Platforms”, trailers, and mini housing clusters…these are centered around Seed of Life Gardens, community centers, and bath houses.

Gallery of close up photos of the diorama with descriptions of each component of the village.

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If you think this is a good idea please Donate. It will cost a lot to make the first batch of diorama kits, Thank You!!!

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