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Nominate your municipality for the Golden Carrot 2024!

Published Sep 28, 2023

School gardens have existed for more than 100 years. That is why many municipalities encourage school gardening. They see it as a good way to introduce children to healthy food and teach them about nature and biodiversity. In 2024, too, the week of 8 to 12 April will once again focus on school gardens. To top it all off, National Outdoor Classroom Day will be organised on 9 April. The week is an initiative of the School Gardens Alliance and Jong Leren Eten.

Nominate your municipality for the Golden Carrot 2024

Is school gardening well organised in your municipality? Is there a clear link between the municipality’s policy objectives and the school gardening programme? And are schools and other organisations encouraged to take up school gardening? Then nominate your municipality for the Golden Carrot 2024! The Golden Carrot serves as inspiration for other municipalities and as recognition of the support provided.

How can you participate?

Would you like to nominate your municipality for the Golden Carrot? You can do so by making an enthusiastic vlog of no more than 3 minutes. You can already record footage during the harvest season, while your school garden is still green. In any case, have an alderperson explain why and how the municipality supports school gardening. You can also give the floor to a school principal, teacher and support worker. Keep the following in mind: the vlog is also a call to other municipalities to support and promote school gardening. Would you like to know more? Read the conditions of the School Gardens Alliance or visit the Jong Leren Eten website.

Breda wins the Golden Carrot 2023

Breda won the Golden Carrot 2023. The municipality received this award on 24 May during the Week of the School Garden for its support of school gardening. In addition to the Golden Carrot, the jury also gave an honourable mention to the municipality of The Hague. This is one of the municipalities that has made school gardening possible for children for more than 100 years.

Opening photo: Alderman Arjan van Drunen of Breda celebrates winning the Golden Carrot together with children and a teacher.

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