BUDDING young gardeners have enjoyed eating spaghetti bolognaise which contained onions grown in their school’s allotment.
The Year 5 and Year 6 pupils from Dover Road Community School in Dover Road, Gravesend, have spent months growing the vegetables as part of the school’s eco and cookery club.
After picking the onions, the children handed them over to the cooks to be prepared for the school’s lunch on October 16.
The club runs weekly and allows the youngsters to choose the vegetables they want to grow including potatoes, cabbage, strawberries, beans and tomatoes.
It is run by community chef Meryl O’Shea and is run in conjunction with Kent County Council’s 2010 objectives for healthy eating.
Healthy Schools co-ordinator Sue Smith said: “We have had the allotment here for about two years now and it is a real asset.
“It teaches children about where the food they eat comes from and because they grow all the food they are really excited about trying it.”
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