GREEN-FINGERED PUPILS SCOOP TOP AWARD IN CHILDREN'S VEGETABLE GARDEN COMPETITION
Pupils from a Hull primary school impressed judges with their wide variety of vegetables and brightly-decorated box to scoop the top prize in a competition to encourage healthy eating.
A group of children from Gillshill Primary School in Cavendish Road, Hull, took the top honours in the Children’s Vegetable Garden Competition, organized by the Yorkshire Agricultural Society.
Dozens of schools from across the Yorkshire region, from as far afield as Leeds and Leyburn and Bradford and Batley, took part in the competition. The Society provided the boxes, and pupils planted seeds and young plants, tended their crops and kept diaries detailing what they were growing, and how.
Television gardener Christine Walkden, resident gardener on BBC’s TV’s The One Show, had the tough task of choosing the best vegetable box after the best 15 were invited to the Great Yorkshire Show.
She, and fellow judge Luke Tilley of Stocksbridge Technology Centre, were impressed by the Gillshill Primary School box.
“This had the greatest variety of vegetables and flowers, and, from looking at the diary, all the pupils had been involved in the planting and tending of their crop,” she said.
“The graphics on the box were also wonderful, and the pupils had written up recipes, had obviously thought about what they wanted to grow, and what they would use the vegetables for. They have put in a great deal of hard work and are deserved winners,” said Ms Walkden.
The Children’s Vegetable Garden Competition, run by the Yorkshire Agricultural Society, is sponsored by the NFU and Stocksbridge Technology Centre at Cawood, near Selby. Planting boxes were delivered to schools across the region, with the compost provided by Bulrush Horticulture Ltd.
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13 July 2012
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YORKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY:
The Yorkshire Agricultural Society was formed in 1837 and is a charity dedicated to supporting the farming industry and rural life. The value of the support it provides to regional farming and countryside initiatives has risen year on year to almost £1m. It is based at the Regional Agricultural Centre, Harrogate; the RAC includes Fodder, the Society’s regional food shop and café which opened in June 2009. Both the RAC and Fodder has won a number of awards, including in 2010, being named as the Observer Monthly Best Independent Local Retailer, and most recently it has been chosen as a finalist in the Taste of England category of the 2012 Visit England Awards for Excellence.
The Society is the organiser of England’s premier agricultural show, the Great Yorkshire Show and its sister event, Countryside Live. Dates for Countryside Live 2012 are Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 October. The 2013 Great Yorkshire Show dates are Tuesday 9 – Thursday 11 July which will be the 155th show.
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