Grow your own Potatoes
Do our children know where their food comes from? I was shocked to read last week that hundreds of school children are not aware that chips come from a potato. With all the media coverage on healthy eating and growing your own, many schools have now decided to teach children where our food comes from in a practical hands on way.
Thousands of primary schools across the country have registered to win an amazing
allotment makeover by taking part in the biggest ever Grow Your Own Potatoes project.
"The look on the children's faces was one of the greatest moments of my teaching career.
All children should experience this." Serlby Park Teacher Paul Farman, Nottinghamshire
Potato Council's Grow Your Own Potatoes project is linked to the curriculum and is a hands-on way for pupils to find out how things grow, and where their food comes from. Over 400,000 pupils will plant their potatoes in March 2010, carefully nurturing them from seed to plants, before harvesting their crop next June.
Our children's school has registered and is eagerly awaiting their potato kit. The pupils that grow the heaviest crop of potatoes will win an allotment makeover for their schools including design, build and all the plants needed to get started. There is also a whole
host of fantastic runner up prizes available, including eco-friendly picnic tables and playground benches.
All schools that take part in the Grow Your Own Potatoes project will receive their FREE growing kit in March 2010, containing Rocket and Vales Emerald seed potatoes, supplied by the British potato industry, grow bags, water spout, stickers and an interactive classroom poster.
For further information, visit www.potatoesforschools.org.uk or call David Gough on 0118 9475956 or 07884 353 474 or email david.gough@ceres-pr.co.uk
