Beacon High Students making new traditions as they grow food

Every week a mixed group of Yrs 7-9 students with special educational needs & disability (SEND) come from their school - Beacon High - to Octopus Community Plant Nursery to get involved in all aspects of community gardening. This means enriching soil, sewing seeds, looking after seedlings and taking their seedlings back to their rooftop garden to grow to fruition - one Beacon High speciality is miniature Canteloupe melons, originally grown by accident and now an annual tradition!

When asked what they do, what they enjoy and what they have been learning at the Plant Nursery - this is what they had to tell us in their own individual way. It looks like there’s a new tradition of drinking hot chocolate as they learn how to grow food, experience being in nature and help the environment.