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Latest news from the Little Hands Garden Project

April 18, 2012 in | 0 comments

Last year we launched the Little Hands Garden Project with our partner Rocket Gardens with the aim of encouraging local schoolchildren to grow some seasonal produce in their own school kitchen gardens.

The schools’ winter gardens were a stunning success and we have just delivered the spring gardens - boxes full of organic baby plants packed in straw - to give the children a feast of spring/summer flavours but also help them to understand the benefits of growing your own food and keeping the produce local. Our deliveries were greeted by hordes of beaming schoolchildren - as Lorraine Evans at Penryn Infants said: "The children are all very enthusiastic about the garden and can't wait to get planting."

Getting children out and about is high up the national priority list with the government’s Learning Outside the Classroom manifesto making it clear that exposing children to the world around them is an essential part of learning and personal development.

A number of schools are taking part in the scheme including Marlborough School, Penryn Infant School, Penryn Junior School, Flushing School, Mawnan Smith School, King Charles School, Falmouth Primary School, Mabe Primary School, St Mary’s Primary, Mylor Bridge Primary School, Constantine School, Sennen School, Falmouth Secondary School, Penryn Senior School, Stithians School.