FROM SPADE TO SPOON

Our last session with pupils from the Swan Centre ended in the kitchens. Thanks to funding from the Big Lottery funded Harvest project we have been busy since February transforming the outside space at the Brighton Aldridge Community Academy and it was time to try out the produce. We boiled two different varieties of potatoes, added some sliced green onion tops and mayonnaise and then decided which variety we liked best. We even offered some finely chopped chocolate mint to sprinkle on for the more adventurous. Our side dish was grated beetroot and radish (red as well as white mooli ones). After we’d eaten, the leftovers went back onto the compost heap. Now we’ve got to decide what to do with the rabbit that’s taken to nibbling the veg…