About our project

From January 2008 the Good Gardeners Association has been given funding by the Ernest Cooke Trust to extend a recent pilot scheme.

We aim to introduce children to the idea that our treatment of soil alters the nutritional quality of the food we grow in it, which in turn affects our health and that of the planet.

This links in with many aspects of the National Curriculum and many current national iniatives.

The project is very flexible and has been run with KS 1 - 3 and in Steiner Waldorf schools. We provide a hands-on learning experience where the children have responsibility for their learning. For more info see "Calling All Schools" post.

Tuesday, 4 March 2008

Worm-fest at Horton

Today was our first session with the children at Horton. Years 4 and 5 were fearless when it came to holding the (very wriggly) worms! We set up a wormery to explore how important worms are in mixing and aereating soils.

We also took a look at a teaspoon of soil and had some guesses at the amount of micro-organisms present (something like 6 billion!)

The children are all keen to start digging, and not digging, and growing! Their favourite veg are carrots, tomatoes, runner beans, cucumbers amd peas so hopefully we'll have some of these for them to taste in June.

Next week we'll be setting up the plots and taking a closer look at soils.

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