Exeter and Bristol

By Gracie Strasser

Greetings! We have been in Bristol for about 2 days now, and before that we were in Exeter. Exeter was the busiest of all of the places we have been. We went into the allotments within the city with two days to collect data and got 180 surveys! That is amazing! We took all the data from the surveys and compiled it into a presentation for our stakeholder, Dan. Dan oversees all of the allotments in the town of Exeter (they actually call him Dan the Allotment Man) and he was very interested in what we had to say about the data collected, recommendations that we had and the people in the allotments. He thanked us for our presentation and case brief that we provided him with afterwards and then we packed to leave for Bristol!

The train ride to Bristol was about two hours long. After we got into Bristol, we went out to an organic farm where we learned about their CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) business and then had a beautiful dinner made of the organic food grown there on the farm! The next day, we went to a science museum and spent the day learning about their green initiatives.

We were so lucky to be here on the weekend of Pride and it was really amazing to see so many different people loving each other, in spite of their differences. As I am writing this a parade of people supporting the Black Lives Matter movement walked by in the streets of Bristol. This reminds me of the sadness that I have been seeing on the news in the US. Why is it that all of us cannot love each other in spite of our differences? It seems so simple to say yet we have been struggling with this idea since the beginning of time.