Hello! We at START recently organised a trip to the Eden Project. This was as a launch for our allotment project. We went to the Eden Project on the 6th of February 2012. This was a great opportunity for some of our regular allotment users to come on a trip with us. We also brought some new service users along with us to try and get them to help us out at the allotment. We also did this trip to get an idea of what to grow in the forthcoming year and also to see what a large project like the Eden Project has done with their gardens.
We left at 10.45 to go to the Eden Project. When we got there we were keen to go straight to the rainforest biome (bubble looking things) which was very humid as you would expect. This was particularly fun for the people who came to the Eden Project to point out what plants were native to their own country as well as to enjoy the features of the Eden Project, such as the waterfall and the high view of the whole biome. In this biome we saw many plants such as, coffee plants, banana trees, coca plants, pinapple plants, gum trees and many more.
We then went on to the Mediterranean biome which was much cooler then the rainforest biome. In this biome we saw, chilli plants, varying citrus trees, cacti, fig trees and much more.
We then walked in the gardens briefly, but before we knew it our time was running out so we had a quick shop and lunch.
We then started our drive back to START at 3.15. Overall it was a really fun trip and gave us some great ideas about what to grow in our allotment project. 
Comments from our service users:“Very educational and enjoyed all the different plants and flowers”
