Our school vegetable patch has been greatly expanded this year. We have four rotating plots with beans, potatoes, onions, garlic, shallots, turnips and broccoli. It has been a good growing season and there was great excitement when the produce was harvested at the end of the school year. Many thanks to our kind sponsors, Fruit Hill Farm, Bantry, who have provided us with seed and compost free of charge.

Mr. Fleming’s class have been taking part in a competition organised by Agri-Aware for primary schools to grow potatoes. We were supplied with two seed potatoes and are growing them indoors. The pupils kept a diary of this. The potatoes were harvested and weighed in June. As part of our work we also visited Mr. Liam Coffey’s potato farm and the Cobh Heritage Centre to learn about the Cobh connection with the Famine. All this work was recorded in a scrap book which will be entered in the competition at the end of June. We wish Mr. Fleming and his class all the best in the competition.

Updated June 9th 2008