Thalassery, 1 November 2013
Keeping in mind that school vegetable garden can positively impact children’s food choices by improving their preferences for vegetables and increase their nutrition knowledge, the students with the help of agricultural office planted vegetables in the school courtyard. Vegetables include Spinach, Banana, Ladies finger, Brinjal, Beans. Students also sowed Paddy in the school courtyard and are now awaiting a rich harvest a few days from now. The takeaway is a valuable lesson on self-reliance in food.