Getting stuck into their gardening are tutor Tom
Grainger, students Gary Waite, Michael Williams,
Thomas McKenna, Robin Hood Allotment
Association Chairman Malcolm Atkinson, and tutor
Ruth Simpson
A group of students with learning difficulties and/or disabilities at ncn are discovering more about planting and growing their own fruit and vegetables thanks to the arrival of new tools and equipment donated by Warburtons.
Family bakers Warburtons has handed over £500 to ncn's Enterprise Business Group initiative ‘Plant Tastic’ to pay for new gardening equipment for the ‘Skills for Working Life’ course. Part of the course involves students growing and picking their own crops at the Robin Hood Allotments in Carlton.
The money went towards several raised beds in order to assist students with limited mobility to look after their crops.
Tom Grainger, ncn course tutor, said: “The beds will help all students on the course learn in greater detail about the delicate and vital processes involved in growing their own crops. At the end of the course students will harvest what they have grown and with our help will create their own dishes from the ingredients, to sell to the public at Stonebridge City Farm in St Anns.”
Plant Tastic learners also create and sell planted containers, hanging baskets, and plants. For further information please contact LLDD Enterprise Co-ordinator Anthony Piper on 0115 912 1657.
Posted on 3 July 2009