Planting our Polytunnels
22/10/2020
We have now started planting in our polytunnels, with a little help from our Forest School Children.
We have started our planting with cauliflowers, broccoli, onions, garlic and elephant garlic and will be planting more varieties within the next few weeks. Our children have really enjoyed getting their hands dirty helping Antonio.
Starting to use our polytunnels represents a major milestone in our plan to grow as much organic food for the Nursery as we can. We want our children to be involved in all stages of growing and making meals, right from sowing seeds, , planting out seedlings, harvesting, meal preparation and then sitting down for a social meal with friends. All the fruit, vegetables and salad crops that we will grow at our Forest School site will be produced as organically as possible.
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The benefits of outdoor learning
We passionately believe that children experience a huge range of benefits when they are playing and learning outside in natural environments. The natural world provides an infinite amount more learning resources and opportunities that can ever be provided in a single room or playground. This why we have purchased a completely secure and private nine acre field in Denholme, which it is in the process of developing into our own forest school facility, where children can be taken to enjoy playing and learning all day in a totally natural environment. We are not alone in believing this as a large number of studies show that children benefit from learning outdoors in many ways.