What is Agri-Aware Incredible Edibles?

Incredible Edibles is a curriculum linked healthy eating and growing initiative for primary school students. It encourages pupils to get busy sowing, growing, cooking and eating fruit, vegetables and herbs through a hands-on and engaging learning experience.

The aims of the project are simple:

Educate students about growing fruit and vegetables.

Increase awareness of food origin, identifying and supporting Irish grown produce, while looking after the environment.

Highlight the importance of consuming 5-7 fruit and vegetables daily for a healthy balanced diet.

We look forward to completing our tasks and learning lots more about Irish grown produce .

What is involved:

Task 1 Learn about food origin.

Task 2 Identify Irish fruit and veg when shopping

Task 3 Planting and growing the incredible edibles from the grow box as well as our own plants..

Task 4 Preparation and cooking at home

Task 5 Incredible Edible Healthy eating week.(May 9th – 13th)Recording consumption of potato, veg, fruit, herbs with the aim of eating 7 portions a day throughout the week.