Teaching children about rural life in Jersey
Ms McGovern said "the programme is about seven to eight weeks long" and the children "are very passionate about this".She added: "It can make a huge difference because I was a teacher, a local girl, and a daughter of a farmer and I didn't know this kind of stuff until someone told me and that's my motivation for this".She has also taken students to the Sustainable Cooperative (SCOOP) to show students how the food is then sold in a sustainable way.
Darcy, Ailee, and Hannah, all 17, were some of the students who visited SCOOP as part of the course.Darcy said "it's been amazing" and "I think it's important to learn how the environment changes because of locally sourced products".Ailee said "it's been really cool to see the different steps behind getting our food ready" and "it inspires people to be more creative about where we get our food".Hannah said "seeing this shows how much our land can produce for us".
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