Growing up in post war Britain in the 1950s and 60s would seem harsh to many kids today. There was no fast food, little or no TV and schools where the teacher’s discipline was absolute.
Going to secondary school in the early 1960s was not easy for me as the school was built on the field my father rented! But at least the school had a big food garden and horticulture was on the curriculum. The food we grew went into the school kitchen. What a superb idea it was – teach kids to grow food and then use it on site. It’s a real shame that it no longer happens in the UK.
In the US some schools have discovered the edible school yard. What a joy it is to see modern kids growing food, cooking it and eating it. The video says its all, it’s from http://www.edutopia.org/edible-schoolyard-video
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It would be truly something if we had even half of this sort of thing in schools in the UK. My daughter is lucky in that they have _some_ vegetables growing, and they have a collection of 4-5 sheep.. but what they have in that video is on a different scale.