The Sunflower Project is the brainchild of community artist and grower Naomi Hannam. She is the founder of Creative Roots, which runs bespoke craft workshops in ink making, weaving, natural dying, foraging and drawing in nature. However, when all her workshops and teaching sessions were cancelled during the first lockdown, Naomi found work on an organic farm and began dreaming of the day when she could gather some of the sunflowers grown there and share them. Last summer she sold and gave away hundreds of bunches of flowers, enjoying seeing the joy they brought to the people she met. Not content to leave it there though, she has now developed a project with the ambition to connect communities to one another and spread the joy of growing sunflowers.
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