Our Project
In the Fresh Food for Frugal Families Project, local primary pupils will work with volunteers to grow and cook their own vegetables, providing tasty, inexpensive, and healthy meals for themselves and their families. While they do so, they will develop thrifty habits and learn the importance of acting local to protect nature and the environment from Climate Change.
Together we will:
- Experience the joys of working in teams outdoors in the fresh air
- Grow and cook food to share with our families and local residents via TAMS
- Learn how tasty, inexpensive and healthy home-grown food can be
- Understand why locally grown food is better for our environment
- explore practical ways of protecting the environment while cutting carbon
- Learn to feed and conserve the soil to grow healthy disease-free vegetables
- Create growing spaces safe for all sorts of bugs and beasties
- Find out how green growing can cut emissions and protect against Climate Change
- Recycle, repurpose and compost materials to cut down landfill waste.
How the funding will help
The Just Transition funding will allow us to enhance the experiences we offer our volunteers and school visitors by providing equipment to cut our carbon emissions and two outdoor learning spaces: a greenhouse laboratory and a solar powered workshop and classroom. These new spaces will also allow visits to go ahead in inclement weather.
Pupils will attend one afternoon a week over the full 10 week summer term. Our Volunteer Squad attends three times a week, 11 months of the year.
