School education project continues with potatoes

200-plus Peterborough school children grow their own potatoes this Spring.

MORE than 200 children from across greater Peterborough have planted their own potatoes and lettuce plants this Spring with Kids Country, the East of England Agricultural Society’s educational programme.

The project is to help them better connect with how their food is grown, as well as learn about the nutritional benefits of fresh, local and seasonally grown food in the East of England.

Kids Country visited four schools: Warmington School, William Law C of E Primary School, Orton Wistow Primary School and Kirkstone House School.

The team of volunteers was supported by local producer Burgess Farms, which donated the seed potatoes, Albert Bartlett which supplied fresh potatoes for the children to taste and explore different varieties and types of packaging, and Evergreen, which supplied the compost. G’s Fresh also supported the popular annual education event with the planting of lettuce plug plants.

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