Our food and sustainability

Amberley Primary School, New Castle UK

Our students have been working hard during the winter, creating a new garden space for our community. Our teachers have taken part in forest school training and we are going to have regular forest school lessons in the garden. We have also recruited an army of gardening grandmas and grandads to help us with the upkeep of the garden. We have planted a variety of vegetables and have been practicing making British garden vegetable soup 

Mustafa Üstündağ Ortaokulu, Kocaeli Turkey - Our farming area and our traditional recipes

The organic farming area of ​​our school, which was created with the personal efforts of our school staff, continues to maintain its vitality this year despite the pandemic. Sustainability is the basic idea in the garden, which has been created for 3 years using only the seeds they have produced. The first products of the plants are stored as seeds for the next year and no chemicals are used for their growth. Manure produced by chickens and roosters in another area of ​​the school is mixed with soil and used in this area. Currently, products such as strawberries, beans, tomatoes, peppers, grapes, kidney beans, mint, onions, potatoes, corn continue to grow in our garden. 

These products are the basic ingredients for our traditional recepies that we want to share with you in this page

Our recipes

Here you can find a series of video-tutorials explaining the ingredients required and how you can prepare these dishes. 

They have been prepared by our students as part of the home-learning activities during the pandemic months. 

The products they are using come from the vegetable garden in our school.