Give Peas a Chance in Schools

Something exciting is happening in your school’s dining hall.

A new climate friendly, nutritious plant protein grown in Aberdeenshire is now featured in new recipes on school menus across Aberdeen City, Moray and the Highlands. 

Bring the learning from the dining hall into the classroom and beyond with our second level learning resources covering health and wellbeing, STEM and social studies sharing the story of Farmer Phil’s locally grown organic peas.

Pea Project Updates

Online learning resources

Accessible to all, our interactive curricular linked resources can be used in the classroom to support learning for sustainability, developing the young workforce and good food learning.

Free Pea Seeds for Second Level Learners!

Did you know that as part of our Story of Vegetables project, we’re offering schools free pea seeds? These are available for second level classes to request throughout the year.

In autumn and winter, you can plant them indoors and harvest nutritious pea shoots. In spring and summer, you can grow full pea plants either outside or indoors, right through to pod production.

To support this activity, we’ve created a learning pack that explores sustainability, STEM, and health and wellbeing.

You can request your pea seeds below.  

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Bridging the Gap

The project is funded by Sustain’s Bridging the Gap programme, and is a partnership between the Royal Highland Education Trust (RHET), the Royal Northern Countryside Initiative (RNCI), Soil Association Scotland, Aberdeen City Council catering and procurement teams and pea producer Phil Swire of Balmakewan Farm.