Cork kids enjoy sowing and growing their own veg

Helen O’Callaghan looks at the Sow & Grow project at work.

THE first class children at St John the Baptist NS, Midleton, were astonished when they first saw a pomegranate.

“They were totally blown away when we opened it and they saw all the seeds inside,” says teacher Deirdre Stoutt, who got her 28 pupils involved with ‘Sow & Grow’, a GIY and Innocent Drinks project that aims to get primary schoolchildren sowing and growing their own vegetables.