We take a look at the Meadow right in the middle of West Bromwich, in fact planted just at the back of Primark.
Multistory in conjunction with other partners were holding a special event to mark the first cut being made of there meadow that has been planted just at the back of Primark, New Square Shopping Centre. Our video is from Saturday, September 7
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00:00Hello, my name's Emma Chetcootie from Multistorey and we're here today celebrating Green Roots
00:08on the Meadow.
00:09Fantastic, it's an awesome project, so we're just in the town centre at the back of Prymark
00:14and we have a meadow.
00:17Well why not?
00:18Sandwell should be full of meadows and in fact this initiative is funded by Sandwell
00:22Council and it's supported by the New Square who wanted to create an eco-garden here and
00:29the meadow has been planted by local volunteers who will come back today for the first cutting.
00:34So the first cutting of the meadow is really important because it guarantees the meadow
00:38for next year.
00:39So the plan is to continue planting and growing things on the meadow, involving more community
00:45members, creating a story and interest around how important nature and the environment is
00:52in local people's lives for all of our wellbeing and for the environment and for nature and
00:57animals.
00:58And insects obviously.
01:00So we're also working with the Birmingham and Black Country Wildlife Trust and this
01:04is an ongoing project so we'll be doing another event here next year so we hope we can do
01:10it a bigger and better event and involve more local people.
01:14It's been, you've got three hot dogs on the go, crafts, even a bit of live music as well,
01:19that's right isn't it?
01:20Yeah, we've got an interactive map with musicians who are translating sounds from West Bromwich
01:28through music, we've got craft stalls, we've got obviously the three hot dogs from Percy
01:34Hot Dogs and then we've got the wonderful performance by Open Theatre.
01:39So there's loads of things to do for everyone.
01:42Great stuff.
01:43Like it says on the bench, let's grow kindness.
01:45Absolutely, let's grow kindness and let's grow more interest in our wonderful environment
01:51here in West Bromwich.