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.

Saturday 26 July 2008

Horton, Finale 17th July

Well, the big day came at last to Horton. With lots of enthusiam the children dug and weighed the potatoes, at some points digging the potatoes out with their hands!

We cooked the potatoes while the pupils explained to Matt Adams (Director of the Good Gardeners) what exactly they had been doing over the past few months.

The potatoes were taken all around the school and every pupil and member of staff tried them! The results of the blind taste test were conclusive: most people preferred the flavour of the no-dig potatoes.

Well done to all the children.
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