Raising money using your school garden

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Involve your pupils in using produce or plants from the school garden to raise money.

Sell surplus crops to staff and parents by having a garden produce sales table in the school reception.
Hold pick-your-own days in an established fruit garden.
Sell surplus plants such as tomatoes, pumpkins, salads, herbs and strawberry plants grown from runners.
Take cuttings of fruit bushes and other plants in the school garden and grow on to sell
Make up bunches of fresh flowers or herbs.
Grow flowers or bedding plants from plug plants. Pot them on into small pots or trays, grow on and sell at a school fair.
Approach your local market or farmers' market and see if they will allow you to hold a stall there occasionally. This is a great way of engaging with your local community.

Remember to comply with food hygiene regulations and list ingredients for allergens.

Sell seeds or plants along with care instructions produced by pupils. This can be linked to the maths curriculum by doing a costing exercise to ensure that sufficient profit will be made.
Sell the products of your harvested produce such as cakes, cookies, jams, chutneys, soup, oils and drinks.
Ask pupils to bring in a plant or produce from home that can be sold.
Run other stalls with seed sowing activities or garden-themed games such as guess the weight of the pumpkin, fruit and vegetable feely boxes or a lucky dip in a bag of compost.

Ask pupils to bring in £1 towards the gardening project in exchange for not wearing uniform

Make your own scarecrow
Potato day - buy in seed potatoes for sale and cook tasty potato dishes
Plant sale of spring vegetables and flowers
Make your own plant container – paint and decorate a container and plant up with flowers or vegetables