Sow, harvest, mill, bake. Credit: Chris Young / www.realbreadcampaign.org CC-BY-SA-4.0
Grow your own sourdough
The book helping children sow the seeds of loaf.
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With the winter wheat planting season (and the new school year) underway in the UK, now’s a great time for youngsters to begin Bake Your Lawn projects.
Starting with just a small handful of wheat and a square metre of soil, every child can enjoy a seed to sandwich journey of discovery, on which the Real Bread Campaign’s grow-a-loaf guidebook will help you to lead them.
We baked our lawns!
- Greenside Primary School
- Comrie Primary School
- Holy Trinity Primary Academy
- Hackney School of Food
- The Country Trust / Stradbroke Primary School
The Campaign continues to collect and share Bake Your Lawn photos and Wheat Diary entries.
"We harvested a reasonable size sheaf, threshed it etc. ground it up, ended up with 400g of flour – just enough for a loaf – and what a loaf it is. The children have a new-found admiration for farmers and bakers, but more importantly were blown away by the process of making and eating their own bread. Brilliant campaign, we loved the experience."
Berkswich Primary School, Stafford (2011)
Dough Monsters!
As well as guidance on sowing, harvesting, threshing, milling and bread making, the book features curriculum tie-in Lessons in Loaf, simple experiments and mini-projects. They include nurturing a Dough Monster, an ideal #SourdoughSeptember tie-in.
The book and more information on Bake Your Lawn is available from www.realbreadcampaign.org
Notes
Bake Your Lawn is published by Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming. Paperback, 170mm x 240mm, 148 pages, RRP £15 ISBN 9781903060681
A trade discount is available on orders of five or more copies.
A square metre of soil and 15-30g of wheat can yield enough to make a small loaf of Real Bread.
Depending on the location, weather, and wheat variety, spring wheat planting season can run to November and even January.
This book builds on the Bake Your Lawn and Lessons in Loaf projects created and run by the Real Bread Campaign from 2011 to 2013. These helped thousands of school children not only to follow the journey from crop to crust but also to discover the connections that Real Bread has with almost every aspect of learning and life in general.
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