Children learned about the environment, healthy eating and growing food on a visit to a farmers' market.
Chichester district farmers' market offers a range of fresh, local seasonal produce and pupils from Chidham Primary School, near Chichester, have been working with one of the stallholders, Tuppenny Barn, on projects from growing their own vegetables to drawing flowers in art lessons.
Maggie Haynes, who runs Tuppenny Barn, arranged for the children to visit the market in Chichester city centre to learn from the other stallholders about producing organic food for local people without the use of pesticides and chemicals.
Last year the pupils helped plant the first fruit trees in Tuppenny Barn's community orchard, which was partly funded by a wildlife improvement grant from Chichester District Council. The orchard now has 120 trees of 50 different varieties of eating and cooking apples, plums, pears, cherries and a quince tree.
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