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, 17 June 2008

Minsterworth growing experiments 13th June

Today the children learned a new song and all had a go at pretending to be the wind, a mill, a miller, or a baker! Lots of fun.

"Blow, wind, blow, and go, mill, go
That the miller may grind the corn
And the baker may take it and into bread make it
And bring us a loaf in the morn."

We also did some measuring and comparing. Following on from last week the children showed what amazing memories they have and between them remembered ALL the items we discussed in the session about composting. They then drew healthy and unhealthy compost bins. Finally we set up an experiment growing carrots in sand / soil dug by moles / undug soil / garden centre bagged compost. All the children reckoned that the garden centre compost would be most successful - we'll have to wait and see!

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