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
Aberdeen City Schools visit Farmer Phils pea farm! Read more
Contact us
If you are a school interested in a class talk/activities please contact
- Alison Johnston if your school is in Aberdeen or Moray: [email protected]
- Fran Matheson if your school is in the Highlands: [email protected]
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.
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.