Life Skills - Discovery Garden

The Discovery Garden
South of England Rare Breeds Centre

Developed within a half acre of grassland, the Discovery Garden is a new way to learn about what grows in the ground and finally ends up on your plate or in a glass at lunchtime.

Mini Hop patch, Pumpkin patch, a fruit salad fence and a "square foot of garden". All these and more illustrate and explain the menu of food we all enjoy every day. This is a 'Child Friendly' secret world of discovery and fun.

The training programme will look at:

• Where our food comes from
• How it is grown
• How this can improve our environment
• How we can live and eat more healthily

 
Beyond the Discovery Garden is a Wildlife Garden, which is in the very early stages of preparation, here we will encourage wildlife by creating a new pond, living willow tunnel structure and lots of plants to entice butterflies and birds, hopefully inspiring our visitors to create a small and simple environment within their own gardens. A Butterfly Tunnel is now part of the Discovery Garden showing how plants, flowers and insects live together.

If you would like to find out more about the Discovery Garden Life Skills Project - call Anne Cragg (Discovery Gardener) on 01233 861 493 Extn 238