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The Tide Mills Project – Love Your
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Historically, the landscape of the Tide Mills area, now in an area of special scientific interest and in the care of the South Downs National Park, has been at the forefront of ecological activity: the great Mill used wave power, one of the first sustainable sources of energy.
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During this lockdown, preparations for the Tide Mills Celebratory Week have been proceeding apace! The whole community is involved, from primary school pupils to retirees. Two of the projects are Ghost Net Weaving and the creation of an allotment.
Kittie Kipper is a fibre artist who uses foraged plastic materials, primarily ghost nets. She is running the Ghost Net Weaving project, encouraging makers of all ages to work with materials that have been discarded as waste. Thrown overboard by fishermen, ghost nets are fishing nets which rise with the heat from the sun and drop deeper into the ocean when it is cold, catching a range of marine life, unable to free themselves. Clearing these nets from the sea is vital. This project is an opportunity to make an impressive, large-scale collaborative installation that also has a positive impact on the marine environment, as ghost nets frequently wash up on the beach at Tide Mills.
Kittie Kipper had put together special individual kits, each with a strand of discarded netting and other
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materials, and online tutorial videos for school children and community members, enabling participants to weave attractively patterned circles: tidemills.app/ ghostnets. These individual circles will be woven together, on-site during the Tide Mills Project Celebratory Week, when participants can explain to visitors the purpose behind this installation. Over 400 school children and a large number of individuals from the community are already working on their circles. Another installation focusing on environmental issues is the creation of an allotment including many vegetables that were eaten by Tide Mills villagers years ago. This project is being facilitated by four local charities. Priory Community Garden, Seaford Community Garden and the Seaford Environmental Alliance are advising on the vegetables to be grown and when the seeds should be planted. Sussex Community Development Association (SCDA) is providing young people, who work on external projects, to dig the plot and tend the plants. During the Celebratory Week, they will be on hand to talk about this project and the food the villagers ate in the past. Find out about these projects and more at www.tidemillsproject.uk Photos: Team members from LYT Productions, Priory Community Gardens, Seaford Community Garden, The Seaford Environmental Alliance and Sussex Community Development Association on a site visit at Tide Mills; Kittie Kipper, who is leading the Ghost Net Weaving Project.
