Check out our amazing ‘Conversations in Nature’ series Episode 4: Catherine - College student - Totterdown.
We spoke with Catherine in Victoria Park about her experiences in nature when growing up in local parks and attending Windmill Hill City Farm, Knowle West Health Association and Youth Moves - Urban Escape project and how they helped shape her life. Catherine says ‘without those experiences I’d be a different person’.
She reflects on the varied knowledge, skills and experiences she took from the weekly youth, community and nature based projects as a young person such as learning skills for life to helping build a roundhouse (their own youth club) and the ripple effect this has had on her, friends, family and the wider community. Catherine says ‘getting out into nature feels like the wind is blowing away my problems’ and suggests to ‘get started on a project, break it into bite sized pieces and get an uplift with each little victory’. ✌️
It is our strong belief that when you fall in love with nature as a young person, you are more likely to look after it as an adult. We threw Catherine a curve ball question at the end of our chat - How do you engage people with climate change and nature 😉
Catherine said ‘young and older generations of the city have different issues on just about everything, but by coming together and discussing them, they can solve these problems together’... and importantly ‘coming up with solutions that benefit each other’...
We agree with Catherine that community and climate change are all part of the same story and together we can be part of the solution, not the problem...
Feels like a wider project is on the horizon 🌅 Watch this space 👀 Change is coming folks and it’s gonna be from the grassroots and up ☝🏻❤️🌱