Beacon High School at the CPN

Pupils from Beacon High school are back at the Community Plant Nursery (CPN). The first group, pictured below, came out on a rainy cold afternoon and we made some beautiful structures to hold materials for birds to use for nest building. The frames were made from ivy stems and filled with twigs, coir and other light natural materials birds need at this time of year. This week the second group constructed bird scarers to protect our fruit bushes.

The Beacon High pupils come weekly and participate in garden related activities such as compost making, seed sowing, wild plant identification, preparing beds for growing. We're tying in curriculum related items such as a biodiversity data collection when the pupils will record all the wild life they find on the site and review this several times per year. When we have crops ready to harvest, pupils will do a carbon miles comparison of the food they have grown at CPN and similar available at the supermarket. 

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