A film seen through the eyes of a group of children who spend a year growing their own vegetables and flowers. Watch them sow, grow, harvest, prepare, eat and care for the soil together with the pupils, or use it to promote your school garden project. You can also get started with the accompanying lesson package.
The film showcases one of Amsterdam’s thirteen school gardens. It tells how thousands of children are welcomed to the school gardens every year. The children then talk about their favourite vegetable. Marc van Will of Osdorptuin and Dieuwertje Smolenaars of Aemsteltuin subsequently explain what a school garden is and how school gardens originated in the 1920s, so that pupils could contribute to the food on the table. Before long, a school garden had three objectives: food production, teaching children to grow their own vegetables, and stimulating an interest in nature.
Watch here a short version. The complete film can be requested through the School Garden Alliance.