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Love Potatoes!Learn about growing your own vegetables and sustainable farming
Liberathe Ritabakinia, 35, in Burundi, shows her potato crop. PHOTO: SARAH ELLIOT//ACTIONAID
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POTATO FACT
Potatoes were first grown by Incas in Peru over 7,000 years ago.
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GROWING POTATOES
Some of Ashley Primary School’s potato harvest! PHOTO: ACTIONAID
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Year 3 children show off their wonderful vegPHOTO: RICHARD DUNNE/ACTIONAID
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The potato is the fourth largest crop, after rice, wheat and maize. There are over 4000 varieties of potatoes in the world.
POTATO FACT
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Eseza Chede, 21, displays a harvest of potatoes from her family's garden. PHOTO: GRAEME ACTIONAID
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CHALLENGES FOR GROWING FOOD IN UK
• Frost• Disease• Pests
What problems have you faced at Ashley in growing food?
• Covering plants and vegetables with newspaper over a frame or a protective cover can help them survive chilly nights.
• Keeping plants healthy with enough light and water, and giving them plenty of room to grow can prevent diseases.
• Netting can keep out unwanted creatures.
How do you overcome these problems?
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CHALLENGES FOR GROWING FOOD IN OTHER COUNTRIES
• Soil erosion• Drought• Floods• Storing food• No seeds
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Typical landscape in Rumphi district, Malawi.PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS/ACTIONAID0
CHALLENGES FOR GROWING FOOD IN MALAWI
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Thabu and other women farmers on their irrigated land in Rumphi district, Malawi.PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS/ACTIONAID
Thabu Chidimba, a smallholder farmer in the fields she shares with other local women.PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS/ACTIONAID
Compost heap in Rumphi district, Malawi.PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS/ACTIONAID0
Maria Mkandawire pumps waterPHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS/ACTIONAID
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WHY GROW FOOD?
• To understand more about our food• Having local food means our food doesn’t
have to travel as far – less environmental impact
• Food straight from the garden has less packaging
• To have healthy, fresh food at school – tasty school dinners
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OTHER GARDENS AT SCHOOL
Sylvia,11, weeds the school garden that’s growing cassava. PHOTO: JAMES AKENA/ACTIONAID
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ASHLEY’S TOP FIVE TIPS FOR STARTING YOUR OWN GARDEN
• The best way to learn is by doing! Start growing, even on a small scale
• Get partners in the community – local horticultural society, go to older generation who have allotments, bring them into the school to support the children
• Get everyone in school involved. At Ashley every year group has a job to do – e.g. hoeing, weeding, watering, sowing seeds, harvesting
• Celebrate what you are doing - have a food festival• Most importantly - eat the food you have grown
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Year 3 student proudly showing the harvested sweetcornPHOTO: RICHARD DUNNE/ACTIONAID
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