The children at Kilmartin P.S. today took part in Jamie Oliver’s Global Food Revolution. As part of Forest Schools, the children are already very familiar with what they can gather and eat from their local environment and have previously made a wild salad with sorrel, wood sorrel, dandelion leaves, wild garlic, golden saxifrage, primrose flowers and beech sapling leaves. Jamie Oliver’s Global Action Day gave us another excuse to forage and make our own food; this time, nettle and wild garlic soup.

Jamie Oliver says, “We need every child to understand where food comes from, how to cook it, and how it affects their body. This is about setting kids up with the knowledge they need to make better food choices for life.”
Our soup ingredients were: Freshly picked nettles, freshly picked wild garlic, organic onions, potatoes, vegetable bouillon stock, little bit of nutmeg and a splash of cream.
While the older class were out foraging, the P3-1 children prepared the other vegetables, using their measuring and estimating skills. They also had lots of discussion about fractions as they chopped the vegetables. All of the children voted the nettle soup a great success!