Foodshare Hits National News Headlines
Foodshare’s latest project the “Grow-Cook-Share” Day has made the front page of the BBC News website this evening. Find out about the wonderful day Milton Primary (the first school to sign up as a Foodshare School) had when they harvested their vegetables and learnt how to turn them into a tasty soup to feed 30 homeless people.
To read the full article please visit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-13888889
To read more about coverage of Foodshare on the TV, Radio and in the Press, please take a look at Foodshare in the News.
August 3rd, 2013 at 4:42 pm
It’s great to have found you, Foodshare!
Our school garden connected with our local food bank last summer when we ran a Garden Daycamp and made countertop herb planters for food bank recipients.
Our first year of growing went into a whole school harvest potluck luncheon (with each class cooking and bringing something they’d grown in their own garden plot). The gym was filled with delighted children!
A province-wide teachers’ strike fouled up our second year of gardening. It turned out I hadn’t yet convinced my colleagues that gardening and food growing are part of the curriculum, so they saw the school garden as “extracurricular.”
But that worked out, too … my class harvested the veggies and we made soup for the whole school and asked for donations. We then extended the leftovers and held a community event – Soup for Somalia – in a local church hall and raised nearly $500.
We’ll look forward to becoming a Foodshare Donation Station!