Everyday Changemakers: Hollis, Wee Forests Dundee

Our Story Weaver, Kaska Hempel, talks to Hollis, a volunteer involved in Dundee’s Wee Forest project.

The story is the final in a 5-part series of weekly interviews with members of Dundee Community Garden Network (Grow Dundee) recorded this June, and an audio tour exploring the meaning and impact of community gardening. 

You can find a draft of the audio tour here:  

https://izi.travel/en/ff0a-dundee-community-garden-network-draft/en 

WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! 

We are looking for micro-story contributions about your community’s climate and social justice achievements this year so that we can include them in the next few episodes. If you or your community organisation had some proud moments, if you managed to create real glimpses of what’s truly possible or if you simply kept going against all odds please share it with our audience. You can record your message at this link (up to 90 sec): https://www.speakpipe.com/1000BetterStories. 

Transcript 

See our website: https://sccan.scot/blog/everyday-changemakers-hollis-dundee-wee-forests/

Credits

Interview, recording and sound production: Kaska Hempel

Resources

Wee forest project info on Nature Scot website - including a few wee videos from primary schools involved in creating them. https://www.nature.scot/climate-change/nature-based-solutions/wee-forests-part-tinyforest-global-family 

Wee Forests in Dundee (University of Dundee press release) https://www.dundee.ac.uk/stories/wee-forests-make-big-impact-dundee-community

Earthwatch Europe - tiny forest project https://earthwatch.org.uk/program/tiny-forest/

Tiny Forest research and citizen science https://tinyforest.earthwatch.org.uk/tiny-forest-research 

The 2023 state of the climate report: Entering uncharted territory https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biad080/7319571?login=false 

Sugi project - Pocket Forest has a podcast on community  https://www.sugiproject.com/podcast 

Wee forest zine jam https://allevents.in/mobile/amp-event.php?event_id=10000528390950557 

Dundee Climate/Changemakers Hub: https://creativedundee.com/2023/09/dundee-changemakers-hub/ 

Dundee Community Gardens Network map https://growdundee.blog/75-2/ 

Social Action Inquiry Scotland documentary about Dundee Community Gardens Network (Fruit Bowls, Ninewells and Maxwell) https://youtu.be/LFrZPtmgssA?si=kjQcQCG88fQfXd5d