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African Gardens
This is the home of our African Gardens resources and kits for children and schools in the UK.
These resources are all about getting children outside, discovering more about the lives of children in African countries and experiencing the joy of growing plants. They also complement any Eco Schools, Growing Schools or Healthy Schools work that you may be already involved in.
New for 2009!
Keyhole Garden Starter Kits are now available for schools wishing to build a more permanent African Garden.
Find out how you can link in your African Garden with our exciting new fundraising resource, based around an art display, called 'Build an African Farmyard'.
Starter Kits
You can order starter kits for your African Garden, including:Bag Garden Starter Kits with one large sack of 100x60cm (or Mini-Bag Kits, with three sacks of 45x30cm) three seed types and lots of info sheets;Keyhole Garden Starter Kits, plus Sponsor a Sunflower Kits, containing two packs of seeds, 10 coir pots and a mini-bag; a 'how to' sheet for making an African Tip-Tap handwasher, and information on how these gardens help children in African countries is also included with each kit.
Learning resources
We also have lots of online support materials for all of our African Gardens, with lesson ideas, children's stories and a host of images to help support learning and make building an African Garden in your school a really successful project. Why not start with:
- these Bag Garden Powerpoints to introduce them to your class
- the African Gardens area on our kids website, Cowforce.com
- then browse all of our African Gardens related resources on our teachers website, Cowfiles.com
Gardening Tips
... straight from Mr Tomato Head's 'Can of Wisdom'
Click on the link to be enlightened!
"It's great to see a new generation gardening and we should be doing everything we can to encourage it. If everyone did this, the world would be a better place." Bob Flowerdew, organic gardening expert.
Get African Gardens resources on Cowfiles.com
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