Fundraising

• Make Christmas wreaths to order from greenery around the school grounds
• Do market research to make the price of your produce competitive
• Ask if your local shop will sell produce from your Edible Playground during the school holidays

Looking for donations of equipment or help

• Put a notice in your local parish magazines

Planting

• Try using old car tyres
• Sowing cereals? Use the story of The Little Red Hen
   

Keep slugs at bay

• Use crushed eggshells or horse hair

Composting

• Blue paper hand towels with fruit waste makes great compost 
• Adding carbon (paper or cardboard) to your bins helps stop the compost being too wet and slimy
• Rabbit droppings are good in the compost too

Keeping the gardening club occupied

• Offer help to other people in the community

Cooking with your produce

• The picture book ‘Pumpkin Soup’ is a fun story as well as a recipe
• See our ‘Eat it Projects’ for inspiration

Make the Edible Playground central to what happens at school

• Make ‘growing’ the theme of your school fair
• Put a gardening column in the school newsletter
• Create an Edible Playground notice board

Keeping the youngest interested

• Take photos of each stage of growth of the plants you sow, then you can show children sowing seeds the following year what to expect and when
• Squish the beetroot thinnings on to blotting paper to make a picture
• Don’t thin your carrots too vigorously, pull them when there are lots of small ones so everyone can have their own

Thanks to Suzanne Sutherland from Craighton Lodge, Paul Higgins from St George’s Junior School, Jane Hewitt from Rangeworthy School and Mrs Hobbs from Orchard House school for these ideas. For more top tips and to see how these schools are getting on click here