Vegetables

 

 Children growing up in an urban environment have little contact with the natural environment. In recent years vegetable growing has become popular with more and more people growing their own food. Teaching children how to grow their own vegetables provides them with an important life skill as well as enabling them to make a connection between the plants and the food that they eat.

Broadbeans coming into flower

• It also helps 
•  to develop an outdoor classroom
• Provides an opportunity for the pupils to interact with living plants.
• Think about their food and where it comes from often traveling thousands of miles to the local shops.
• Children get the opportunity to taste really fresh vegetables that have only been picked a short while earlier.
• Develop an awareness in quality food
• One of our greatest pleasures of growing your own food is eating it afterwards as a reward for all the hard work
•  Stimulate an interest in producing their own vegetables and help them to develop self-reliance.
• To become familiar with some of the  creatures that  live quietly in the soil but often create irrational fears in the child
• Observe and record the germination op seeds and  record the life cycle of individual plants
• Understand the life cycle of potatoes.

 

 

Digging is Easy