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, your pupils can discover how Send a Cow helps teach African children how to make them, ensuring they have food to eat every day. They’ll also find out more about growing plants, composting and healthy diets. And as a Bag Garden is simply a sack filled with compost and soil with a column of stones up the middle – they’re easy enough for your pupils to make together.

To get you started, you can buy one of our Bag Garden Kits* costing £12 inc. p&p, containing one large or three small sacks, three packs of seeds and lots of information sheets and posters. All profits from the sales of the kits go to Send a Cow. 

Order a Starter Kit

You can now order Bag Garden Mini-Kits online in our Gift Shop. Or you can buy both large or small sack kits using our order form, or by calling us on 01225 874 222 with your credit or debit card ready, (large sacks are 100x60cm and mini sacks 45x30cm). Our seed mix, 'Purple Power', 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.

Why a Bag Garden?

Bag Gardens are a simple way for children to grow food in African countries and they are designed to use waste water, compost and old bags, such as rice sacks. Re-use of resources is hugely important to the families we work with, as it increases what can be grown in a small area.

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.