Food Growing in the Schools
Evacuees from London creating an allotment at Redworths' Grammar School, later KEVICC (© Totnes Image Bank and Rural Archive)
Food was also grown in the schools in and around the town. During World War Two, Redworth’s grew a lot of food, and evacuees from the cities also gardened there (see pic above). Marion Adams recalls the farming still taking place at Redworths when she was a pupil. “KEVICC used to be a farm school. It used to have sheep, we learnt about farming and agriculture, we used to put the ram to the sheep, we used to have the first lambs. They were there a good time, the original sheep only died when my kids were there. They had a big flock until the early 1990s. There were rabbits. The garden behind Kennicott is a walled garden. My mum used to send me up there to buy vegetables and flowers”.
Dartington School at Foxhole also had a small farm as an integral part of the school. ? told me:
Foxhole had a farm and grew field crops, cabbages, turnips. The children weren’t very interested in gardening, they were more interested in farmwork.
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