Much Marcle Primary School Garden Project
March – May 2023 we worked with the children of Class 3 from Much Marcle Primary School to build the school a small vegetable garden.
The children really enjoyed the experience and have become budding gardeners! We have tried to use recycled materials as much as possible. We have made planters from pallets, pots from bottles and buckets and spoons for labels.
We wanted the children to get a real understanding for how things form an eco system and see how easy it is to grow your own food.
The children have planted; sugar snap peas, marigolds, borage, nasturtiums, onions, chives, strawberries, chard and radishes in their new garden, as well as making wild flower bombs, bunting and spoon labels.
We have also introduced a wormery, with the idea that the school will be able to sustain and continue their growing, whilst also making their green waste into compost. The school is now using their food scraps to feed the worms, who continue to create their own rich compost and natural fertiliser or ‘worm tea’!
The children have been putting the salad grown in the garden into their sandwiches and love the fact that they have grow it themselves!
To finish the project, the children came up to Hellens on a gloriously sunny day for more planting and making of decorative pots from milk bottles for the festival. We were also lucky enough to have a really inspiring talk from Kev Alviti which the children were captivated by.
We had such fun in the sun, the children loved being at Hellens and getting involved in creating for the festival. Big thanks to Charlie and our wonderful volunteers for helping so much with the planting!
Well done everyone from Class 3!
Planting, making and growing with you has been a joy!
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