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HURRY! Numbers are limited and kits are going fast!
This year's FREE Grow Your Own Potatoes growing kit is better than ever and as well as stickers and a watering spout, there are other goodies for you to use in the classroom.

A Positive step to inspire children's natural enthusiasm for the outdoors!
A brand new, non-profit making company who's massive ambition is to design construct and maintain at least 40 school gardens in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire each year, making the difference to at least 200,000 children's lives!

Growing Schools Garden resource wins prestigious award!
The Department for Children, Schools and Families and Twofour Communications won the award for best Interactive Media for the Growing Schools Garden resource www.thegrowingschoolsgarden.org.uk at the recent IVCA Clarion Awards ceremony.

The Growing Schools Gardens

The Growing Schools Garden BirminghamGrowing Schools has successfully developed two show case growing school gardens. The aim of these gardens is to show how learning can take place outside the classroom, within the school grounds.

The gardens offer visitors inspiration for their own school grounds, but also be a realistic vision of what it possible on a limited budget.

Renewable WorldWant to know more about renewables but don't know who to ask? Try The Renewable World, a website grounded in good-quality science, and offering an innovative way into this sometimes perplexing area.

To find out more, go to www.renewableworld.org.uk

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Why Grow in Schools?

All schools 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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