Want to grow your own vegetables?

Grow Cook Enjoy can make it happen. We are keen to get your vegetable growing off to a fantastic start and can help you set up. Creating raised beds, ensuring the soil right and knowhow of what to grow when. Advice for pest control and organic gardening. We offer gardening classes and workshops to make your garden a success. Choose a private class or lookout for or new for 2021 children’s gardening classes.

The school garden provides a excellent way to teach in real terms where food comes from.

It can easily be linked to the national curriculum in terms of life cycles, living well and improved nutrition, pollination, art, maths, food systems, ecology. In addition to meeting these educational needs the experience of working with and connecting with nature by growing food may reduce stress levels, increase exercise and possibly be a solution to the growing problem of obesity. It also improves focus and attention encouraging working together as a team. A school garden is essential an essential part of every schools learning resources

Planning a school garden

The success of a school garden requires planning, ground work, maintenance, as well as gardening experience. Other challenges include maintenance over the holiday period and staff turnover it can seem daunting for the already overburdened teaching staff. Grow Cook Enjoy can provide the resources needed to overcome these challenges to make your school garden a success

We can help getting set up! We can provide advice  planning your school garden and organising the space for creative planting ideas. Grow Cook Enjoy know what to plant when and what works within the school year.

Grow Cook Enjoy School Workshops

Our workshops can be themed to compliment your school projects;

• The Victorian Garden

• Dig for Victory

• Viking Feast

• Ancient Greece

• Celebrating Culture Through Food.

Grow a recipe pack

We also offer a number of grow a recipe packs;

• Grow a Singapore Noodles

• Pin Wheel Pizza

• Grow a Rainbow Salad

• Grow a Pasta Sauce

  These can be individual pack or class packs the contain coir pots and disc to grow your plants on plus a fantastic guide to growing your plants on. You could even have a plant sale with spare plants to fund your next years project.

Packs includes the resources for 30 children to sow the ingredients for the recipe. Recipe cards and growing guides plus a link to an online how to video.