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.

Wednesday 26 November 2008

Next Steps

After the successful completion of two projects, the question is - "What next for Sowing the Seed?" Well, we would of course like to continue. And we have already had three requests to run projects next year. We have been busy making funding applications to various organisations. The idea is that we recruit and train volunteers so that the project can be disseminated with minimal cost. Also we are preparing all the resources so that teachers can run the experiments themselves, with some guidance and support from Good Gardeners where necessary.

Keep you fingers crossed, and watch this space!

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