As part of its STOP Hunger campaign, Sodexo is providing schools in communities where it operates with seasonal fruit, vegetable and salad gardens. The project sponsored by its own charity the Sodexo Foundation will provide nominated schools across the country with a year’s supply of school gardens which includes a fruit garden, a spring/summer garden and an autumn/winter garden.
The school has received the first of three gardens, a spring garden which comprises a selection of baby plants including lettuces, spinach, carrots, leeks, tomatoes, runner and green beans, courgettes, cabbages and potatoes. The second, the autumn garden will be delivered in September and will include more baby plants such as spring onions, pak choi, turnips, broccoli, broad beans to name just a few. Then early next year the school will receive the final one, a seasonal fruit garden.
Sodexo Defence provides a range of support services at military locations throughout the UK and Carreghofa Primary School is being supported by the team from The Dale Barracks in Chester, led by services manager, Andy Gear. A greenhouse made from 1,500 recycled plastic bottles has also been built at the school with assistance from not only Sodexo’s own employees, but also from their military customers, 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh.
Rachel Humphreys, headteacher at Carreghofa Primary School, commented: “We are delighted to get involved with this project. The children were very excited by the arrival of the boxes and being able to plant. It is a great way of heightening their awareness of where our food comes from.”