Tuesday 17^th July 2018

A Bumper Harvest!

 

This year has seen our ‘Veggies R Us’ project continue to flourish. With plenty of planting on the school site, today was the day to harvest our produce and ship them to ‘The Plough’ at Wangford. We also had a surprise visitor with Siobhan coming into school to see how we were getting on!

As you can see…we have a bumper harvest of Gooseberries, Chard, Iceberg Lettuce and Rhubarb. Although the dry weather has diminished our crop a little, we have still managed to provide ‘The Plough’ with 4 harvests of our crops.

Harvesting has been a challenge with the weather set so dry and warm. The team have to quickly harvest their crops, weight them, wrap them all and deliver them all in the space of an hour. Quite a challenge but ‘Team Veggies R Us’ have risen well to it! Our finance team are now used to preparing invoices and sending them to Adnams for payment.

Looking ahead we are hoping to buy our long awaited greenhouse over the winter to enable us to grow tomatoes and cucumbers. We are also putting systems in place to make our allotment plot more manageable…lots of thinking required to tackle a changing climate! Let’s hope for some night-time showers soon!