Free Gardening Things For Schools

Capital Growth

The Capital Growth campaign will offer practical and financial support to schools and communities around London to help more people grow more food, and to have greater access to land and food growing spaces for community benefit.

Rocket Gardens

Rocket Gardens supply schools with a box brimming full of baby plants packed in golden straw. This box arrives on your school's doorstep ready for immediate planting to create your own instant kitchen garden.

Countryside Classroom

Countryside Classroom provides teachers with resources that raise awareness, motivation and ability of teachers to incorporate food, farming and the natural environment.

Garden Organic

Teachers can access links to practical advice and activities for all ages on how to start and maintain an organic food growing garden. Handy, quick-reference Growing Instruction Cards, Activity sheets and more...

Social Farms & Gardens

Social Farms & Gardens supports communities to farm, garden and grow together across the UK. They provide expert advice, support and a free membership scheme to support communities to grow in sustainable ways.

RHS Campaign for School Gardening

The RHS Campaign for School Gardening inspires and supports schools to provide children with gardening opportunities to enhance their skills and boost their development. Schools can access free seeds, downloadable resources and school gardening training resources.

Budding Gardeners

Gardening equipment supplier, Harrod Horticultural has put together a fantastic website aimed at inspiring children to learn where their food comes from and how to grow it themselves. Budding Gardeners is packed full of handy resources including tips and tricks, lessons plans and growing guides. Schools can also receive exclusive discounts on gardening equipment.

Edible Playgrounds

Trees For Cities create Edible Playgrounds that transform school grounds into vibrant outdoor teaching gardens, inspiring hands-on learning and getting children excited about growing and eating healthy food.

Bake Your Lawn

The Real Bread Campaign have developed a growing guide for teachers, parents and others who work with children to have a go at growing, milling and then baking your own loaf of bread.

The National Trust

The National Trust's wants to celebrate local and seasonal food and environmentally friendly farming with this useful guide. The website has information about growing your own food, planting workshops, places to meet and buy from local producers, and news of the best seasonal produce that your area has to offer.

Grow Your Own Potatoes

The Agriculture and Development Board's 'Grow Your Own Potatoes' project will send you all you need to grow your own spuds at school. Register up to 4 classes in school to receive free growing kits, containing everything you need to grow two crops of potatoes and enter in a national and regional competition.

Recycle Now

Here you will find all the information you will need to make a real success of composting at school.

Tools Shed

The Tools Shed is the Conservation Foundation's tools for schools recycling project run in association with Her Majesty's Prison Service. All those garden tools that once lay at the back of the shed waiting to be fixed are now repaired in prison workshops around the country, contributing to prisoners' training and rehab. The spruced up tools are then given to schools for their gardens at seasonal distribution days.

Eco Schools

Work towards green flag accreditation through nine topics, including 'School Grounds' and 'Healthy Living'.