Fanshawe College Poppy Project

November 11, 2021 6:23 am Published by

Students and professors at Fanshawe College in London launched a special Poppy Project for this year’s Remembrance month.

 

To keep poppies worn until Remembrance Day out of the landfill, the team created a sustainable poppy to honour veterans while also helping the environment. 

 

Unlike traditional plastic poppies, they’re created using construction paper infused with oriental poppy seeds. 

 

People can plant these seeds in their gardens after November 11, to germinate and bloom in the spring. 

 

The project is designed to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Remembrance poppy in Canada, and the 1915 poem In Flanders Fields by Canadian Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. 

 

It has received support from faculties in the college, as well as the greater London community, including the Royal Canadian Legion, which have all donated funds and items to bring this project to life.

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This post was written by Dave Palmer