Growathon Under Starter’s Orders

New initiative aims to get young Londoners growing

A new initiative has been launched by the Food Growing Schools: London partnership with the aim of encouraging 10,000 London students to grow their own food this year. The new Growathon website enables schools, students and growing organisations to share their food-growing activities on the Growathon Carrot Totaliser and watch as the numbers increase.

From classroom windowsill growers to urban school farms, every school in London is being encouraged to get involved. Activities such as workshops, assemblies, class projects and school farm visits will be included, and schools will be able to advertise public growing events on the website and invite other young people to come along.

Find out more and get involved at www.growathon.org.uk

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Steve Ott is editor of Kitchen Garden magazine and started his career as a professional grower, producing everything from cut flowers to vegetables. He has been growing fruit and veg all his life and spends most of his spare time in his garden in the East Midlands. He loves to experiment with crops and varieties he has never grown before and when he isn’t gardening is to be found out in the countryside bird watching and walking his dog Ted.

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