Food for Life Partnership

• Grow food in your school
• Grow food in your community
• Grow food at home

Grow food in your school

Growing food organically at school gives pupils the opportunity to learn about where their fruit and vegetables come from. Young people always show far more enthusiasm for eating food that they have grown and nurtured from a seed themselves. As pupils develop their growing skills they will become more aware of the diverse varieties of fruit and vegetables that can be grown seasonally in this country, and by learning how to garden organically they will begin to respect and appreciate the environment that surrounds them.

Starting to garden at school can be as easy as growing a few herbs or tomatoes in containers on the playground. Useful links can be made between organic growing and a wide range of curriculum links, in a way that is enjoyable and memorable for pupils.

Growing food at school is one way in which schools can work towards a Bronze, Silver or Gold Mark awarded by the Food for Life Partnership - find out more information about how you can get your school involved.

MASTER COMPOSTERS
Garden Organic also works with Master Composters - volunteers who encourage people in their local community to start composting, and offer support to people who are already home composting and may be having difficulties or need encouragement.

So if your school is in Buckinghamshire, Enfield, Norfolk, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Suffolk, Warwickshire and Worcestershire & Herefordshire, we might have a Master Composter near you that could help with your composting. For more info, contact jgriffiths [at] gardenorganic [dot] org [dot] uk.

Organic Gardens for Schools project

Garden Organic provides lots of support for schools through it's Organic Gardens for Schools project - a nationwide campaign which helps children grow vegetables at school and learn more about their food.

All schools that enrol with the Food for Life Partnership receive practical organic gardening advice, activity sheets, curriculum-based resources, a quarterly newsletter and much more from Garden Organic.