It's my own garden - but I do take my ideas to work i.e. I film the birds in my nesting box to take in, photograph (and collect dead ) butterflies, dragonflies etc. I volunteer to work on projects in park and wetlands - I'm just an enthusiast - not an expert!
Fortunately my setting is surrounded by land - unfortunately it is public, so we are allowed nothing fixed and in this day and age bird/bat boxes that I have placed have been knocked down amongst other things. I don't let this deter us and we grow as much as we can, as well as using the outside area for play.
I find those hessian planters invaluable and we have sucessfully grown potatoes, courgettes, parnips etc for group projects - but they all have to live in my garden in the holidays. The children of course always grow something they can nurture themselves and record/bring in etc.
If they are not seeds we can sow in a pot, such as tomatoes, we will sow them in trays in the setting and I place them in my greenhouse, and bring in weekly until it's time for the children to pot them up, take home and hopefully enjoy, record and take a photograph/or email to share with us.
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