African Gardens

Making an ‘African Garden’ is a great way for your pupils to learn about the lives of children in Africa through fun, hands-on activities that are also perfect for Eco-Schools.

Use our resources and Starter Kits to help your pupils find out more about growing, the environment and healthy eating. Get started by building a Bag Garden, and then add to your school ‘African Garden’ by constructing Tip-Tap handwashers, growing sunflowers or by making a Keyhole Garden! And as these techniques are part of Send a Cow training for poor families in Africa, they help to explain how simple methods can make a big difference.

Find out more about African Gardens:

• Bag Gardens – small gardens in a sack - great for small people!
• Keyhole Gardens – circular raised beds with a compost core
• Tip-taps – ingenious, recycled handwashers
• Plant tea – give your crops a real boost, African style
• Energy-saving Stoves – a fuel-wood saving mud design
• Sunflowers - add some colour (and height!) to your garden
• Recycling garden ideas - clever uses for plastic bottles - NEW
• Tyre & container gardens - put old containers to re-use - NEW
  

Order a Starter Kit

Our kits make life easy for you, by providing all the basics, including lots of advice and related resources for a successful project.

Buy mini kits online and others using our order form, or call 01225 874 222.

Enter our Competition

You'll also receive an entry form for our competition with your kit, and this year we want to see your garden on video. So, send a short video (2-3 mins) by July 9th and you may win an African Gardens trophy!

Learning resources

We have lots of supporting materials online, with lesson ideas, children's stories and galleries of images to help add to learning:

• A fun area within our kid's website Cowforce.com
• Our teacher's website Cowfiles.com