Garden Showcase

Calling all budding gardeners! Does your school have a garden/ gardening club?

If so, we are creating a pictorial display of school and community gardens in Sandwell to make a big display at the Sandwell Show in August. We would love to have your photos showing your gardens, and children enjoying gardening

Help us to show off your gardens for all to see!

Food For Life Partnership visit to Salop Drive.

A crisp spring day in March brought representatives from the 3 Food For Life Partnership (FFLP) Birmingham flagship secondary schools to Salop Drive Market Garden. The Garden Organic Education Officer for West Midlands, Malcolm Smith, had organised the morning with Ideal For All. The aim of the visit was to enable the staff and pupils to see organic food growing on a large scale; to learn some new skills; and to enable them to network and share experiences from each others schools.

al Fresco Young Gardeners Harvest

The young gardeners here at 'al fresco' have made their first harvest of the season. The children from Tameside, Mesty Croft, Priory, & Park Hill primary's along with Manor High school and surestart early years all reaped the rewards of growing their own at the club based at Friar Park allotments in Wednesbury.

Growing Labour of Love for Pupils

The whoops of joy as a team of young gardeners pulled carrots and parsnips from the soil on a Wednesbury allotment plot were proof of youngsters enjoying the work of learning how to grow their own food.