By David Sparkes In the depths of the ocean, out of sight, but not of mind, buried in the silt and pebbles and dappled by the shadow of...

By Julie Walsh The sea was always just… there. I was born in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, grew up within sight of the Irish sea, and...

by Katie Griffin I’ve never been a ‘physical’ person, throughout my 40 years of life I have always been into more creative endeavours. ...

By Jenni Newling I’ve never regretted getting into the sea for a swim but always regret when I don’t! I have to tell myself that every...

by Jenny Ayrton Enjoy this gorgeous audio story written and recorded by Jenny Ayrton for our Folklore creation workshops with Jon Nash. ...

“If you go down to the shore of the sound A wish may be granted if the right stone is found A sea smoothed pebble, dark like the night...

By Lucy Jane “It’s only 250 words” I keep telling myself as I sit down to reflect on 13 years of living, studying and working in Plymouth....

By Poppy-jayne Jones It’s been seven years since I joined the Devon Wild Swimmers at Plymouth Hoe, salt and sea-tide and pushing to one...

(a lover of the sea) The smell of teal blue with deep green seaweed notes keep me coming back for more. Sometimes I go outside my house...

The mist and the slight drizzle of rain gave the morning an ethereal quality, void of any depth of colour as though an artist had painted...

I was seven when I almost drowned; I can still remember the initial feeling of panic as I went under for the first time and then the...

September to December 2022 So if you don't know already ...the Gathering is a project that will help us create a large-scale community...

My sister and I on Brighton Beach. Living in the middle of London in the early 60s as a kid, one of my first experiences of outside water...

In 1975 Jaws was released...and unsurprisingly that was when my sister and I developed our fear of sea swimming. Crazy looking back now...

Celeriac not the most attractive of vegetables, but don’t let that put you off it has been eaten for thousands of years, it was first...

After foraging on Plymouth Hoe, recently with the excellent Tess Wilmot and the Light-Seekers Clan , we discovered a rosemary bush...

I know that isn't a catchy or motivating title for a blog post but guess what?... two years into the pandemic and I have bounced in and...

So this is really a family recipe. We all make different versions of it but the stand out ingredients are mint and apple. Adding these...

Gin is something we do really well here. I'm using Plymouth Gin for this recipe but you can use whatever you like. So when it comes to...

Plymouth has an incredible 43 community orchards. The very wonderful Tess Wilmot from Always Apples told me that...so it must be true. ...