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Kendale Road Project
Digging for Victory
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Digging for Victory
Location: Kent
The Kendal Road Allotment Project is in full swing with a variety of help on hand. The educational nature of the project has not gone unnoticed by local schools whose pupils have been more than willing to lend a hand.
The project covers not only Science and Nature in the Primary curriculum but also History. The project gave the children hands on experience of the 'The Dig for Victory' campaign during the second world war. Due to food shortages and rationing everyone was encouraged to keep an allotment to help the war effort.
The pictures show local primary school children getting involved in the work of the allotments.
Two of the pictures show the children helping to turn over the compost heap, a very important part of the work. We usually have three or four heaps going at the same time and try to make as much of our own compost as possible using up grass cuttings, hedge clippings and kitchen waste. Our allotments are organic and we use no chemicals.
The children come down from the school every week, different classes coming on a rotation basis, so that the whole school is involved in growing the vegetables. This is linked to what is taught in class about life of plants and growing cycles and to what is taught about eating fruit and vegetables.
Smaller groups from two other schools are also involved in working on the allotments and a number of local adults have recently begun to get involved since they have seen what the children are doing.
A video archive has been started recording the work done on the site and research has started to look into the history of the use of this piece of land in the past.
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