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Dig for The Future |
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Our schools campaign for 2009 aims to help one million children in the UK plant, grow and eat some of their own organic vegetables.
We launched our schools campaign ‘Dig For The Future’ in early 2007. It started out as a nice idea to give away some of our gardens to schools who were interested in teaching children how to grow organic vegetables.
We weren’t quite prepared for over 4000 schools to request one of our gardens within just a few months.
Last year we had to limit the number of gardens (as we didn’t anticipate such a massive response) but we did manage to put over 400 gardens into schools across the country with tremendous results.
So for 2009 we’ve decided to expand the project so that we can offer schools throughout the UK an opportunity to create their very own organic kitchen garden within their school grounds.
This years school Rocket Gardens will include a great selection of baby organic plants which have be selected so that they can be planted in spring and picked and eaten before children break up for their summer holidays*. We will also provide natural worm cast fertiliser to feed the plants throughout the growing season.
For teachers (even if you are a total novice gardener) we provide lesson plans linking the idea of growing a schools organic vegetable garden to the various key stages of the national curriculum.
Unfortunately due to the growth and scale of our campaign we are no longer able to offer all schools our gardens for free but we can offer an excellent cost effective way for schools, children and teachers to create their own organic kitchen garden at the perfect time of year.
Click here to obtain a Rocket Garden for your school |
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