Dedicating a small part of your school estate to food growing  will enrich your learning spaces. If you use your school grounds to grow a few food crops, you are creating opportunities for learning across all 8 curricular areas.  Involving parents, families and the wider community in the creation, maintenance and celebration of your growing where possible will benefit everyone.

Find out how food growing has been used to support Learning for Sustainability Food Growing Projects and LfS

If you are new to gardening and food growing two websites in particular will provide resources and inspiration.

RHS School Gardening Campaign & Awards are very flexible and is supported by topic and lesson plans, information sheets and activity guides.  All resources are free and you do not have to register with the awards to access them.  In addition, RHS have created an RHS Let’s Grow Food Padlet with lots of ideas to get you started on your own food growing project.

Royal Highland Education Trust (RHET) aims to  bring farming and the working countryside and its practices to life for young people.  RHET Teachers’ Resource Portal allows you to access a range of resources from online materials to school visits – all CfE linked.

Sustainable Food Growing – Getting Started

Sustainable Food Growing – Soil, Worms and Compost