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25th February 2020. Interview with Paul form Grow Elephant, London.
I was talking to my colleagues at Social Life about the project and they reminded me they had done a social impact evaluation of Grow Elephant - a mobile community garden that moved around the Elephant and Castle development area. The document was a really useful way of seeing the social benefits of such a project.Â
I arranged a call with Paul who set up the project to get his advice on what works and what to be mindful of.Â
Here are my notes about the project and also from the interview.Â
Grow Elephant was Londonâs first mobile garden, a moveable growing project that temporarily inhabits the under-used spaces of the city.
Scattered planters made from donated materials and plants
These communal parts of the garden are tended to by volunteers during the regular Saturday afternoon work sessions held in the garden and through the spontaneous efforts of regular users of the space.
Indeed, while the garden is mobile, designed to evolve and adapt to new spaces, it is also grounded in the local community around Elephant & Castle. Finding a new home nearby will enable this valued community asset to carry on developing the social links and local relationships that have been forged over the past six years.
Important points to add to the proposal:
adapting to the potential of the site.
form part of a wider eco-system of community groupsÂ
Mini allotments
The garden has several hundred containers available as mini allotment spaces. Local residents can sign up at the beginning of the year for up to eight containers to grow their own produce. In 2016 around 60 individuals and families signed up.Â
Summer 2017, some of the allotment gardeners had not continued tending their containers because of uncertainty around the future of the garden.
Gardeners can pick how many they want to occupy in a year and adjust the number according to their needs and capacity. Containers are easier to manage than a ground plot, they require less digging and are less susceptible to pests. Raised off the ground, they are also more accessible to gardeners with restricted mobility.
Workshops
Over 50 sessions a year have taken place over a year
Started v.slowly from 2011. Triggered by a local campaign to save a plot on the Heygate. They couldnât stop the plans but got agreement to give them meanwhile use. They moved around during the 7 year project.
Gardening is always about projecting into the future which is a challenge if itâs going to close.
Didnât have any strong ideas about what a community garden should be âwe knew nothing and we learnt through just doing it, and it built up incrementallyâ
They got a grant to put a tap in.Â
The first site operated as an allotment with keyholder access. Didnât have capacity or motivation to do more at that time but then they realised realised they should use it to its maximum potential with a full programme.
The project isnât really replicable. Very personal project, he threw himself into it. By the end he was very exhausted and wanted to create a more sustainable and replicable model that doesnât rely so much on one person.Â
Tottenham is more running as an events space because thatâs what they can plan for but canât do gardening because they only have a rolling one month contract.Â
Q: How much time did you spend there in a week?
âIt was my lifeâ âI wasnât alone doing everything but we didnât have the resources to pay peopleâ
He was the keeping the show on the road. You can rely on volunteers to run it.
Q: Income generation?
mainly from the bar and space rental.
Cafe - Itâs very hard to make money out of selling food. Itâs really complicated.Â
Ask groups about alcohol mark-up because this is a good way of generating an income.
Site is huge factor in income generation. You need to start with the site to figure out what income it could generate. Depends a lot on the context. Eg. in Tottenham they rent studios. Generates a community of people too. This creates a regular income that you can plan around.Â
Important to consider...
If the space is quite beautiful then people will want to use it for events. But this is less reliable.
How long the space is available for and the security of the contract makes it very to plan and makes the financing really challenging. Substantial set up costs need to be divided by the months that you have the space.Â
Minimum he would consider is 3 years. The first year is setting up the space and it wonât be as attractive as it will be âthere is a tipping point when the space becomes nice and ppl will want to engage with it and then it just becomes easierâ. The second year becomes the first year really.Â
Q: Human resources?
Paul full time, in his 30s. He didnât get a salary. He chose to keep the income for the next project.Â
Paid staff:Â ÂŁ10/hour.
Patsy worked 4-5 days a week. Helped with the cafe and gardening. She was older so it brought a bigger range of people to the space. She was local. ÂŁ50 per day. It was a loose arrangement. Â
A few people worked selling drinks at the bar.
All the wages were from selling drinks.Â
Lots of people came to volunteer to help look after the garden and those that had their own little space to look after.
People helped organise events in the space. They were part of the project. He wouldnât call them volunteers. âProgrammersâ.Â
Q: What percentage would you take for events?
No events were charged because they were free.Â
There were a few paid events, canât remember how much. Wanted to encourage events being free. Then theyâd make money from selling drinks.Â
They did two corporate events. He charged them about ÂŁ2,000 each time which was great. One a month in the summer would be really helpful.Â
They had a license to stay open till midnight.Â
Q: Grant funding?
Yes always for capital projects. Lots of small grants between 1-5k.Â
Q: Set-up costs - Water and electricity? How did they get it?Â
Remove the risk of paying for this infrastructure if you donât know how long youâll be there. Get them to cover the risk. Also this is very hard to cost in advance, it depends a lot on the place and how easy it is to connect it up. This could be really slow and is something to factor into the timescale.Â
Developers Lend Lease were so unsupportive.Â
They had to finance getting the tap installed - ÂŁ2,000. Get electricity was ÂŁ6,000.Â
Building the cafe cost about ÂŁ12,000.
In total set-up costs were around ÂŁ20-25,000.
For us to cost this project and put a proposal that says what we can deliver we need to have a site identified.Â
DOS attack: used to shut down network (spam the network)
  - used as a distraction
  - while another attack is carried out
properties RSA provides:
  - Authentication
HTTPS has perfect forward secrey
  - Use diffie hellman every time for a new session
Chosen Plaintext Attack:
  - You have a cipher text you want to decrypt and you try different plain text
Known the different data/control interactions (buffer overflows are an example, telephone tones, )
  - TICTOU
  - sql injection
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Snapchat Atack:
  - hardcoded key:
    - replay attacks
    - re use
  - ECB:
Chinese syndrome (film t=is assessible)
- insider attacks, - social engineering (usb),
- the more security you have, the harder it is to work
  - no stackoverflow
  - no email
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- partially air gap some of the network
- for MAC key where key is
questions from case studies, extended demos, a movie, course textbooks for the extended stream.
vpn doesn't protect from browser fingerprinting
  - VPNs give confidentiality
