Bag Gardens

Bag Gardens not only help to feed children in Africa, they are a simple way for children in the UK to find out about sustainable living.

By growing vegetables in a Bag Garden (or 'sack garden'), your pupils can find out about growing plants, composting and healthy diets. They'll also discover how we help  African children to make them, ensuring they have food to eat every day. And as a Bag Garden is a sack filled with compost and soil with a column of stones up the middle – they’re easy enough for pupils to make together.

To get you started, buy one of our Bag Garden Starter Kits* costing £12 inc. p&p, containing one large or three small sacks, three packs of seeds and lots of information sheets and posters.

Order a Starter Kit

Buy mini-kits online and others using our order form or call us on 01225 874 222

Choose between one large sack (100x60cm) or three mini sacks (45x30cm). Our seed mix, contains dwarf French beans, mustard leaves and beetroot. The sacks we supply you with are made out of bio-degradable hessian, which have the added advantage of turning into compost at the end of the growing season!

'The Bag Gardens gave the children a valuable insight into the problems of poverty which many African children face every day.'

Sue Walton, Headteacher, Bishopstone Primary School, Swindon.

Bag Garden Video Competition!

When you buy one of our kits, you'll also receive an entry form for our competition to see who can make the best garden. And after seeing so many fantastic photo entries, this year we want to see your garden on video - so we have a new category. Send a short video (2-3 mins) in with your form by July 9th and our panel of judges will decide which will win an African Gardens trophy!

If you don’t have access to Vimeo.com to watch videos at school, register for an account on their website at home and then you can download all our videos using the link on the bottom right of each video page.

Teachers Resources

There are lots of online resources to help you make the most of your Bag Gardens:

• Start by using these Powerpoint files to introduce them to your pupils
• And these animations with Mr Tomato Head!
• For a whole range of PowerPoints, stories and images, visit our resources website Cowfiles.com.

To make more of the experience, why not run your growing project alongside some fundraising by holding a mufti 'Wellie-Wednesday?

*Please note that we can only send our African Gardens kits to addresses in the UK.