PUPILS and teachers at a Kerry school have shown great resilience and creativity in preparing to plant their own spring garden this March – despite the school being closed.
Loughfouder National School in Knocknagoshel is one of over 1,600 primary schools nationwide planning its own spring garden and learning all about fresh, Irish produce during the Covid-19 lockdown.
It is part of Agri Aware’s Incredible Edibles programme which is a free, healthy eating and growing project that has been running in Irish primary schools for 13 years.
Participating schools receive free grow packs that contain everything teachers and students need as they learn all about food origin and Irish produce through online teaching, while preparing to plant their own spring gardens in March.
Teacher Elizabeth Lane’s junior, senior, first and second classes in Loughfouder National School have also been examining the difference between processed and unprocessed foods in their kitchens at home and making posters with afresh Irish produce theme.
In their online classes this week the pupils have been talking about the origins of food, how most of it come from the farm and what foods they eat are processed or unprocessed.
Agri Aware is an independent farming and agri-food educational body and a charitable trust tasked with the mission to create a national awareness of the value of modern agriculture and farming, the stewardship of the rural environment, animal welfare and the benefits of nutritious, Irish food.
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