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School Farms Conference 2012 School Farms Conference 2012
The school farm: providing a stimulating learning environment for all young people. 5th-6th October 2012, Banbury, Oxfordshire.

Food Growing in Schools Report
The Food Growing in Schools Taskforce was established as a response to increasing concerns about the health and well being of our children and a confidence that food growing in schools is a successful way of dealing with these concerns, delivering many benefits.

Food Growing activities in Schools, NFER, 2011, Report submitted to DEFRA
As part of a Task Force report on Food Growing in Schools, an independent report from National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER), surveyed 1302 schools and undertook a systematic literature review, contributing evidence confirming that school food growing activity is widespread and of value.

Home Grown Boys
Six young entrepreneurs from inner city London develop a vegetable growing business during the summer holidays. Watch the programme to see what they learn about business and how successful they are in their first experience of growing vegetables!

Case Studies


These video case studies are part of the virtual Growing Schools garden.

Growing Schools Garden AwardWorking with the Botanic Gardens Education Network (BGEN), Growing Schools has developed an award for gardens that provide advice and training for schools, and demonstrate how gardens can be used for active learning across the curriculum. Gardens of all kinds, including school gardens, are eligible.

To find out more, go to the Growing Schools Garden Award pages.

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Why Grow in Schools?

All schools and settings can benefit from using the living environment as a school resource.

We have prepared five key arguments to help you make your case.

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