Every school should have an asparagus bed! Veg patch and fruit trees.

Supermarkets and marketeers have disconnected people with where their food comes from. This has resulted in a can't cook, won't cook generation and bad diet increasing obesity and diabetes.

We desperately need to improve diet by enthusing the next generation to love fresh fruit and veg, and influence their parents to change from ready meals, to cooking fresh nutritious food.

Growing and picking fresh fruit and veg has proved to completely change children's attitude from 'don't like vegetables', to 'YUM' (see video).  So all schools need an easy to manage, fruit and veg patch.

Hence, an Asparagus bed, the king of healthy, fresh veg, and Strawberry patch, everyone's favourite fruit. Both once planted will produce a crop every year during the summer term with minimal maintenance.

Once established and popular other crops can be grown depending on enthusiasm and space.

And cost? I bet, in time, the improvements in diet will reduce the NHS spend on diet related illness by 10 times the cost of implementing this initiative.  And schools could even earn from their veg patch by selling their crop to a local shop found on the BigBarn Local Food map. (see video)