Excellent feedback from schools and Waitrose branches following our School Produce Sale last Thursday. BBC London featured Balham branch as they hosted Sacred Heart Primary. SFM is busy putting together a handbook celebrating the project with lots of top tips and valuable insights from the students as they try out their considerable enterprise skills! Read more to find extra photos and some great stats ...
- 19 schools took part across 10 branches of Waitrose in London
- 1,247 children were directly involved
- 41 types of vegetables, fruit and herbs were grown for sale
- Beetroot was the most popular vegetable sold
- 952 School Food Matters recycled paper bags were used
- Food growing was linked to 11 different curriculum subjects
- A total of £2,137.59 was taken on the day!
- Highest sales were taken by Cardinal Wiseman School - £312.33
- Largest area devoted to food growing was the equivalent of two football pitches!
- Smallest area devoted to food growing was a wheelbarrow full of strawberries
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