Food Gardens in Schools Book Published August 2007

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Here is an extract from the Introduction:

Gardening can be a magical experience for children. They love to help out and delight at ripening berries, blooming sunflowers, and gathering up lemons for lemonade. Most adults can recall happy times spent in the garden when young, learning how to plant seeds and stake tomatoes, an experience often shared with our parents and grand parents. Many of us remember the exquisite taste of homegrown food - in contrast to the bland taste of many supermarket fruits and vegetables today. Unfortunately, with the trend towards shrinking backyards and increasingly busy lives, domestic food gardens have become ‘a thing of the past’. The opportunity to pass on important gardening skills from generation to generation and to share in the joys of homegrown food is being lost. For children without a vegetable patch, or even a fruit tree, there’s little opportunity to observe how food grows. They may only ever see fruit and vegetables at the supermarket where they come neatly packaged, bear little resemblance to the whole plant and may be sold outside the normal growing season. Schools are excellent places for creating food gardens as they often have more space than homes. As ‘outside classrooms’, school food gardens can be used for a range of activities across all curricula. They provide a great opportunity for physical exercise and hands-on, experiential learning. Seed to Seed Food Gardens in Schools hopes to inspire a rebirth of food gardens so children will be able to enjoy gardening and growing their own food and their own seed for the next season.

Posters for Schools

The Short Happy Life of a Cucumber - the twelve stages in saving cucumber seeds. You get one copy measuring 70x50cm

Help us Grow - this is designed for schools with text on why it is important to save seeds. One copy 50x35cm

Give Peas a Chance - this is everyone's favourite. Message about how many pea varieties we have lost in Australia. Two copies 50x35cm and two copies 35x25cm

Lettuce be - a sister poster to the above with a message on how easy it is to save lettuce seeds. Two copies 50x35cm and two copies 35x25cm.

Please note we now offer two extra complimentary posters. Set of ten sent in a tube. Order posters