Introduction
Workshops
The whole school approach of the Love Local Food programme means that every child in participating schools will be given the opportunity of getting their hands dirty and learning how to grow their own food.
Pupils workshops and lessons
Throughout the year schools are encouraged to incorporate the core LLF themes of growing, cooking, sourcing and selling local produce into their day to day curriculum activities. Below are a selection of resources and links which should provide teachers with plenty of inspiration.
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- Growing Resources
- Cooking Resources
- Selling Resources
- Curriculum
- Video Clips
Growing produce
The whole school approach of the Love Local Food programme means that every child in participating schools will be given the opportunity of getting their hands dirty and learning how to grow their own food
LLF growing resources and links to some great school gardening websites. Whether you have outdoor beds, keyhole gardens or a covered growing space such as a polytunnel or greenhouse there are a wide variety of crops that can fit in with the school year.
Resources and downloads
The tabs below will allow you to download the growing resources generated as part of the Love Local Food programme. If you would like a modifiable version of these resources please do not hesitate to ask.
Links to useful gardening sites
There are lots of fantastic websites out there which provide downloadable growing resources for schools. Please follow the links below to some of the ones I visit most often.
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Growing for Gold booklet | LLF homework diary to encourage pupils to grow at home and enter their produce into the Growing for Gold competition in September. Please print double sided with 2 pages per page and fold into an A5 booklet. |
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Growing for Gold Assembly | An assembly to encourage your pupils to take part in the Growing for Gold competition and to explain about the different categories in which they could enter their produce. |
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Garden Organic | Fantastic set of gardening resources including a brilliant set of seed cards which give you planting and harvest times, spacing and much more information about almost every vegetable |
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RHS Campaign for School Gardening | Another great set of resources particularly for setting up your allotment, composting tips, crop sheets and nifty ideas like No-Dig potato growing! |
What you can do
Cookery ideas, lesson plans and recipes to use your produce. From simple salads and smoothies to soups and chutneys there are thousands of different ways of using up your produce so that everybody gets a taste.
Resources
Below you will find a selection of resources and recipes which have been tried and tested. Some utilise little or no cooking so are suitable for use with primary age children and others make use of parts of vegetables which may otherwise end up in the compost such as beetroot, turnip or radish leaves.
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LLF Butter Making Lesson Plan | Making butter is a great, low resource activity suitable for any age group. An ideal supporting activity for farm visits or farming themed assemblies. |
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Chutney Presentation | Add some details here... |
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Full Project Overview | Download this pdf to view the Project details |
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Green Tomato Chutney | A tangy chutney recipe to use up any green tomatoes left on the plant either before you go away on summer holidays or in the autumn. |
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Homemade Tomato Ketchup | How many tomatoes fit into a ketchup bottle? Why not make your own and find out! You could even do a taste test to see if it tastes as good as the "real" thing!! |
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No Cook Chutney | A perfect recipe for primary schools as this is all chopping and no cooking! The recipe can be adapted to incorporate whatever you are growing...be prepared for a few tears while chopping the onions though!! |
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Pickled Marrow | A great way to use up any of those monster marrows that appear as soon as you ignore a courgette plant for too long! These are a yummy alternative to gerkins and are great with cold meats and salads. |
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Radish Leaf And Potato Soup | Radish leaves usually end up in the bin or the compost heap but could be put to much better use. They make a peppery addition to salads and taste great in this simple soup recipe. |
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Beetroot Leaf Curry Recipe | Don't throw away the leaves! Although they make great compost they are a delicious alternative to spinach in many recipes. Why not try this simple curry recipe. |
Harvest Festival
All participating schools had a harvest festival to celebrate their green fingered achievements and let the whole community see what they have been up to.
Fundraise
Plant and produce sales allowed pupils to fundraise to buy seeds and gardening equipment so that can grow even more next year. Get more fundraising ideas here from the download page
Farmers Markets
A trip to a farmers market can be a fun day out for all the family and you will have plenty of goodies to sample! Have a look at our local food supplier page to find farm shops and farmers markets near you, or you could even have a box of local food delivered to your door.
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Full Project Overview | Download this pdf to view the Project details |
Curriculum there's lots to do
See the download tab for useful files...
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Wexham Court Ideas for Children | A great list of ideas to make use of the school''s growing space in every subject of the curriculum. These ideas were generated during a staff meeting at Wexham Court Primary school |
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Growing for Gold Assembly | Assembly to launch the Growing for Gold competition (Themes: Plant requirements, Growing plants, Competition categories) Spring 2011 |
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Primary Launch Assembly | Assembly to launch the programme to primary pupils (Themes: LLF topics, Upcoming events, Butter making) |
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Secondary Launch Assembly | Love Local Food launch assembly for secondary pupils (Themes: Local Food, LLF topics, Butter making, Home growing) |
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Parent Baseline Questionnaire | Baseline questionnaire to be distributed to parents at the start of the programme |
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Parent follow up questionnaire | Parent questionnaire to assess the impact of the programme - to be distributed towards the end of the programme |
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Pupil baseline questionnaire | Pupil baseline questionnaire to be administered in the classroom at the start of the programme |
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Pupil follow up questionnaire | Follow up classroom questionnaire to assess the impact of the programme |
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| Cheesemaking Video | Find out how cheese is made... | |
| Growing Bean Video | The life of a growing bean in slow motion... |