As School Grounds is one of the topics we have been working on for our current Eco journey, we decided to get involved in a food growing project called Food for Life. Miss Brooks sent off an application for a grant to buy compost, pots and vegetable seeds in order to grow vege that wee could share with our community. We decided to involve all the children in the school in planting and growing some vegetables  and herbs that we could use in cooking so that we could share some of our produce with The Simon Community in our local area and the gardeners at The Hidden Gardens in Pollokshields. Our grant application was successful and we have planted potatoes, carrots, chives, courgettes and beans in our classrooms and in the Eco garden. These are growing well (despite an attempt by vandals recently to overturn all the plant pots with carrot seeds in them in the Eco garden) and we hope to be able to harvest our produce before the end of term and make soup which we can share with The Simon Community at a celebration event in our school. Here are some photos of our vegetables and herbs growing. Here you can see some of our seedlings growing on classroom windowsills and some of the vegetables we have planted in the Eco garden.