Plot to Plate Club

We provide families with the skills, experience, knowledge and confidence to change their eating habits and improve their health and wellbeing

The Growing, cooking and nutrition club is a 6 week rotational programme. It is designed for parents and families to grow, cook and eat together.
Each 4 hour session includes practical food growing as well as cooking, nutrition and eating.
The sessions are very informal and relaxed
No prior skill or knowledge required.
Club aims and objectives
Broad outcomes:
Families learn to cook new recipes and families enjoy eating new ingredients and dishes
Families engage with growing food
Families increase their understanding of healthy eating

Ambassadors

Participants should complete the course understanding the following:

Appreciate the value of a healthy diet for children and adults
Understand the role of nutrition in a child’s growth and development the influence of others on a child’s food habits and preferences
Food Groups in a healthy diet for children and adults
Understand the role of Carbohydrates in a healthy diet for children and adults
Appreciate the difference between simple and complex carbohydrates
Appreciate the role of fibre in a healthy diet for children and adults
Understand the role of protein in a healthy diet for children and adults
Appreciate the value of fat in a healthy diet for children and adults
Appreciate the need for a variety of protein sources and especially the need to include iron rich and omega-3 rich proteins.
Understand the role of fruit and vegetables in a healthy diet for children and adults
Understand the role of antioxidants
Understand the role of dairy foods and calcium enriched diary alternatives in a healthy diet for children and adults

Propagate from seed directly and indirectly (and why/when we do each)
Propagate from cuttings and why we do this
Plant out and thin out – understand plant spacings
Plant identification
Define and identify weeds and understand when and how to weed
Identify edible ‘weeds’ – e.g. iron rich nettles
Folklore around foraged foods
Understand pests and disease, and how to mitigate and react to this
Understand biodiversity and importance of this
Understand fertility, soil web, soil health and how to foster good soil health/fertility
How and when to harvest
An understanding of seasonality – when to plant and harvest etc
Seasonal tasks e.g. mulching, pruning, fleecing

Parents may go on to access formal Food, Nutrition and Growing training qualifications
Parents train as growing, cooking and nutrition club facilitators for your service

The Plot to Plate Club has been fully funded through Area Partnership grants from GCC
We have a dedicated funding officer who will work with to develop funding streams to support this work in your organisation.
We have already worked with St Paul’s Primary School Shettleston, Silverdale Nursery, St Michael’s Primary School, St Mungo’s Academy, Parkhead Community Nursery and Tic Tacs Out Of School Care , Cranhill Development Trust