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After multiple successful visits to schools with a variety of gardens, innovative ideas and best practices were presented. We are very thankful to those schools for sharing their knowledge, objectives and future goals for their school gardens. The SHANTU WASH team is currently starting with visits to schools without gardens (or schools with non-maintained gardens) […]

On September 29th, the team visited Ruiping elementary school (新北市林口區瑞平國民小學) in New Taipei city, to observe the school gardens. It is a small school located next to the seashore. Although it is a small school, they make good use of the school grounds; a greenhouse on the compound is used for the production of vegetables

On September 29th, the team visited Ruiping elementary school (新北市林口區瑞平國民小學) in New Taipei city, to observe the school gardens. It is a small school located next to the seashore. Although it is a small school, they make good use of the school grounds; a greenhouse on the compound is used for the production of vegetables

Our MOE friends visited today to look at the progress of this exciting project, and the children presented their findings and experiences of the past few weeks in English. Their presentations all agreed on the fact that they learned a lot about farming and they think it is hard work. Also, the children were happy

During the third visit to the school gardens on August 13, romaine lettuce sprouts were planted in the rooftop garden. The groups have diligently planted the young plants in neat rows, while making sure to dig channels on each side of the lines for rainwater. Then they ploughed the elevated rows of soil with spades

Today’s visit was all about learning how to grow one of Taiwan’s indigenous vegetables; sweet potato leaves. They have been introduced in Taiwan a long time ago and have become a very popular staple food. This vegetable is easy to grow and is full of nutrients and vitamins; they are an excellent source of antioxidants and contain high

Today a part of the SHANTU WASH team visited Xinzhuang Elementary School, to learn more about their school garden project. They constructed school gardens 4 years ago and now have up to 10 gardens, growing various types of vegetables, fruits and herbs. There even is a butterfly & fish garden, and flowers are grown to

On Friday May 7th, students participating in SHANTU projects, joined a fieldtrip to the World Vegetable Center in Tainan. During the day they participated in ‘tomato leaf curl’ scoring, for the selection of the right tomato breed for the right environment. The world vegetable center aims at raising awareness of the role of vegetables for