Pupils at a Hampshire school are selling fruit and veg from their allotment to local restaurants and shops
Schoolchildren in Hampshire have begun supplying local restaurants and shops with fruit and veg from their allotment, where they’ve been growing produce for 16 years.
Pupils from Wicor Primary School have been selling surplus produce to The A Bar bistro in Portsmouth, and a local grocery shop, BBC News has reported.
Revenue from the produce has raised between £5,000 and £8,000 a year, spent on new tools, compost and glasshouse maintenance at the school.
Eight-year-old Oscar told the BBC that he thought the initiative is “very cool…we grow here and other people eat it at restaurants.”
School horticulturalist Louise Moreton said the head had allowed her to dig up part of the playing field, where crops range from onions and garlic, to more premium lines including lovage, caraway and fennel.
The school also has a polytunnel, a kitchen garden and an orchard.
As well as selling the fruits of their labour, pupils can also eat what they grow and take home recipe cards.
