We’ve had a busy few weeks in the school garden – parent volunteers harvested all the plums on our trees and all the children in the school received a couple each – a bumper harvest!

Our harvesting of apples continues – we are holding an apple day on October 5 when we will (hopefully if we can figure out how it works!) be using an apple press borrowed from Transition Linlithgow to make apple juice for the children to try. This week children from P1 helped to harvest apples – joined by some of their buddies from P7 on a detour from their smile mile.

And the P7s who have been creating a physic garden helped to plant a liquorice plant. This was one of the plants they researched and suggested for the garden. Unfortunately liquorice root only becomes ready to eat after five years and the oldest plant we could get was a two-year-old one – so very kindly Brandy Carr Nurseries in Yorkshire sent us some fresh roots for the children to try. Liquorice root is botanically sweeter than sugar and the nursery reckons their root tastes “out of this world” – although only one of our P7s agreed!

Pics attached of P1s harvesting apples – pic of the liquorice plant and children trying the root to come in separate emai