Campaign for School Gardening

A New School Year

edenhendry — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:41:08 GMT

Hi Everyone,

Welcome back to the new school year!

I've just volunteered to get my daughter's infants school onto the Benchmark Scheme. we've just got Level1 sorted, and we're about to get going with a Sensory Garden in the courtyard garden (it has laid unused for several years).

Are there any schools near us (Yateley, Hampshire) which we could visit to see what they have achieved?

I'm also running a gardening club and would like to link up with another school's gardening club if possible too.

Working with school

Homegrownuk — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:10:49 GMT

I have recently established the Homegrown National Garden Share Scheme and one of our objectives is to work closely with schools to establish gardening links with the community. What used to be called Rural Studies when I was at school features very low down the subject range if featured at all in most schools. Under our present extreme economic circumstances it will soon become a necessity rather than a hobby that more people are able to grow their own vegetables and help sustain themselves. Massive food outlets and supermarkets can't continue for much longer and the cost of mass producing food both economically and environmentally is becoming too great to bare.Please visit our web site at <a href = http://www.homegrownuk.org> and sign up for the newsletter, make a donation or even better get involved.

Wildlife Garden

Hosta — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:56:52 GMT

Am trying to plan a wildlife garden for a nursery school. Children aged 3-4yrs

Would appreciate any advice and suggestions. It is a fairly big area so want to do loads of planting to attract wildlife.

Any suggestions for plants that are going to be suitable to for the kids as well as the wildlife ?

Thanks

saying hello .....

dave the caretaker — Fri, 30 May 2008 12:35:18 GMT

hi all i run our primary schools gardening club and would just like to say hi to all the teachers who run clubs or gardening activites in there school grounds hope to swap idieas with you all soon Dave.

Welcoming the community

Tall Gardener — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:10:41 GMT

Level 4 of the RHS Campaign for School Gardening Benchmarking Scheme asks that you have 'an established team of volunteers from the local community (including parents and governors) regularly working alongside pupils in gardening activities'.

We have tried to get parents involved in gardening at our school and have failed. Has anyone got any suggestions of how we might get them involved?

Visiting a school garden in London and the south east

Lucy Stewart Van Liew — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:54:27 GMT

I am a native Brit who is settled in Connecticut in the Northeast of the USA. I have been asked by my daughter's school (kindergarden to 14years) to design and project manage a school garden. I am a garden designer (2nd career) and I have a pretty good idea of some of the design issues but we are much further behind the UK in this area and I am keen to get adavice and ideas from those who have gone before!

(One of the the main challenges here is that our climate is much more extreme than the UK-and the children have 3 months summer holidays from Mid june to mid september).

I am visting the UK in Mid march and again in May for the Chelsea flower show and would love to visit a school garden in London or the south east - to get information and ideas. I note there is a RHS regional coordinator in the south east-Alison Findlay. but I am not sure how to contact her directly.

many thanks for any help

Lucy Van Liew

Vegetable planter sizes

gq2882 — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:15:06 GMT

Hi all,

I was just wondering if someone could tell me how deep my planters need to be for growing vegetables, such as tomatoes, strawberries, potatoes, parsnips, carrots etc.

I am currently working on a project for a Primary School who would like to incorporate a vegetable area into their playground.

Any advice will be gratefully appreciated.

Gemma

School Gardening question

Sword Lily — Thu, 15 May 2008 08:39:45 GMT

Hello,

Our school has just recently joined the Campaign for School Gardening website, which is fab by the way! The children are really getting involved and suggesting things to plant. We have decided to grow food and would like to know what can we plant now that we can harvest in the summer term.

Thank you in advance