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Bloom Literature 2009 The
Living Classroom (Recycled) Promoting
the Growing of Local Organic Food & Bio-diversity
in Schools This
demonstration school garden represents a large diversity of habitats
&
growing areas, including a vegetable patch, herbs & flowers, native
woodlands & hedges, Heritage apple trees, fruit bushes, wild areas,
pond,
water collectors. This
project aims to explore the possibilities of creating educational
school
grounds in the form of the edible schoolyard; including
cross-curricular links
for the teacher in the classroom. It also supports other educational
initiatives
such as The Food Dudes Programme, The
Incredible Edibles, The Green Schools Programme, Discover Primary
Science, etc.
It can also link with community
gardens & allotments around the country, which are growing in
numbers. As
it is, only schools with ongoing organic school garden projects get to
see the
full value of the organic school garden. This demonstration garden will
allow
other schools, grandparents, parents, children & the wider
community to see
the wonderful potential of this outdoor
classroom. In
order to encourage and help schools wishing to create their own school
garden
Bord Bia is in the process of producing a DVD on this topic. The DVD traces the development of a number of
organic school gardens through a full year and will be available from September 2009. Bord Bia has
commissioned the school garden
at Bloom and the production of the DVD, both of which are sponsored by
the
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. Kerry
Earth Education Project and Irish Seed
Savers Association, with funding form The Heritage Council, have
produced a
short publication, ‘The Year Round School Organic Garden’.
Created for Bloom in the Park 2009 by Kerry Earth Education Project, sponsored by Independant Irish Healthfoods, www.iihealthfoods.com , HSB - renewable energy, www.hsb.ie ,NOURISH Health & Beauty, www.nourish.ie
National
Organisations/Information Resources:
Further
Education/Training
Courses:
Allotments/community
gardens/networks
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