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Food
Glorious Food
Young visitors to Wicken Fen helped to re-instate the cottage garden of the fen's historic Fen Cottage during the recent half term school holidays.
The project was part of the National Trust's Food Glorious Food initiative to encourage children and their families to grow and eat their own fresh produce.
The children helped weed and dig over the borders and planted lettuce, beetroot, parsnips and beans and recycled pasta and yoghurt pots to make decorative flower pots. Children were also given packets of salad, carrots and thyme seeds to grow at home.
"The aim was to show just how fun and easy it is to grow fantastic tasting food" says Learning Officer, Fiona Symonds. "You don't need a big garden - its amazing what you can grow on a tiny plot or in pots and hanging baskets".
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Fen volunteers also produced a series of recipe ideas using plants growing
in the cottage garden, including rhubarb and rose petal jam and lavender
sugar.
The tasty crops planted by the youngsters will eventually be harvested and served in the Wicken Fen café, giving a food mileage of around 40 yards as opposed to the many hundreds of miles that many of the fruit and vegetables sold in our supermarkets travel.
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