Tip-taps & plant tea

You can add all sorts of things to your school's African garden to bring even more learning, colour and interest.

Tip-Tap handwashers

These ingenious African hand-washers help keep hygiene levels high in Africa, where diseases can spread easily. Often situated outside a loo or by a cowshed, they are an essential part of Send a Cow training. The simple structure allows you to wash your hands where there is no running water, just by pressing a lever with your foot.

Tip-Taps are also an easy thing for children to make and use here in the UK. Kids can get really creative and come up with different designs, making it lots of fun.

When you order any of our kits, you'll find a Tip-Tap sheet included, showing how to build one - or simply use the video on the right. You can also find lots of related resources on our Cowfiles.com site too, including pictures of Tip-Taps in action!

Plant tea

A low cost and easy way to get more crops from your plants is to create your own 'Plant tea'. The ingredients for it can usually be found locally to your school and can inlcude comfrey leaves, nettles and compost. When added to roots, the 'tea' gives your plants a nutritious kick that helps your veggies grow well. It will also create a strong reaction in your kids as, when ripe, it is very stinky!

In Africa, where many people rely on the food they grow, simple, low-cost additions to crops like Plant tea can help families grow twice as many vegetables on their land.

Find out how to make you own Plant tea and organic pesticide in your African Garden by using our Organic Tips sheets.

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