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.

Thursday, 12 June 2008

Horton Measuring and composting - 12th June 2008

Again, sorry no pics today - too busy working! We did a lot of measuring and the plants have grown enormously since last week.

Then we did the same exercise as at Minsterworth, looking at different objects and deciding whether or not they could go into a compost bin. Lots of good discussion. Finally we started a piece of art showing a "healthy system" and an "unhealthy system" - the results are amazing and I will take pics next week - watch this space!
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