Kitchen garden at Grange Primary School in Sligo - on the go for 2 years now. Called by briefly to take pics of their summer harvest for a short article I'm writing. Ended up standing behind their stall at the North Sligo Agricultural Show (after a quick break harvesting chickweed, kale, and other assorted greens from friend P's garden, which she whizzed up in her Vitamix with alaria seaweed into a fabulous green smoothie...we are all moving towards raw here, slowly but surely). It was a surreal day, and a 30 min job turned into 8 hours, but huge fun.
The pupils won Best Tray of Organic Veg and also won the '3 Peas in a Pod' comp. Such a cute name for a competition. Great to see the kids getting their hands in the soil. Sad to see all the white flour victoria sponges and sugary jams though.
Agricultural shows are an utterly bizarre but strangely wonderful part of Irish life.
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