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Green Club teaches girls how to:

• Plant and grow vegetables
• Grow flowers and exotic plants
• Understand the environment
• Understand recycling
• Take part in a nature trail
• Make garden crafts
• Learn about different types of soil and plants

The Club takes place every Tuesday from 4.30 to 6pm at Baytree’s vegetable plot at The Colour of Food café in Papa’s Park, 10-17 Pulross Road in Brixton or at the Baytree Centre itself.

Girls meet each week at the centre and should wear old clothes if they don’t want to get muddy!

We aim to run the club again in Summer Term 2011 but if you have any queries in the meantime please contact Suzy on 020 7733 5283 or suzy@baytreecentre.co.uk.

An update from Green Club Volunteer Leader Lizzie:

Green Club has had a very successful first term. Our main activity has been to create our very own vegetable garden, which is now teeming with life and fresh produce!

We began the term with a trip down to the site – which at that time only contained two empty beds of soil. We learnt about what plants needed to grow, so that when we planted our little vegetable seedlings the next week, we were ready to give them all that they needed to grow into big, strong plants.

With weekly watering, our plants grew and grew (and are still growing!) and before long, we began harvesting! So far we have picked (and tasted!) four varieties of lettuce, peas, beans, parsley, chives, rosemary and strawberries.

We also had a very special Saturday session where we picked our home grown spinach, and, with the help of wonderful cafe owner Joy, turned it into delicious spinach pizzas! Along with our growing, we have also had fun with green crafts: making bags out of recycled materials, and making our own fundraising jamjars to raise money for the Baytree trip to the Commonwealth Farm.

We also learnt about nature more widely, doing nature hunts to search for bugs and plants, and learning about the uses of other plants around the garden. We finished the term with a treasure hunt, during which the girls had to demonstrate what they had learnt in order to search down the treasure!

Over the summer we will have a couple more 'Green Days' to harvest the remaining plants: which include beetroot, cabbage, cauliflower, potatoes and runner beans. Our aim has been to get the girls enthusiastic about nature, and help them understand a bit more about where food comes from, and how delicious healthy food can be.

Special thanks must be given to Joy at the Colour of Food cafe for her loan of the space and her ever welcoming presence!