Pupils at Ysgol Rhyd-y-Grug in Wales have picked up spades and trowels to grow their own in a new school garden!

The children are in charge of deciding what to grow. So far they’ve created a herb and vegetable patch, flower beds and a circle of trees, including two newly-planted oaks

Not only are the pupils sewing seeds, planting, digging and harvesting crops, but they do it without using any chemicals. They're proud that what they grow is fresh and healthy, and that nothing pollutes the soil or threatens wildlife.

They’ve even made money from the gardening club, selling £20 worth of the food grown to parents.

Pupils were inspired by the story of 12-year-old Global Ganger Jethro, who they learned about at school. For Jethro, gardening is not just a hobby – the food he grows feeds the pupils at his school in Zimbabwe, a country in southern Africa.

Since starting the gardening club at Ysgol Rhyd y Grug, many children are now growing vegetables at home too.

‘I grow tomatoes, potatoes and leeks,’ says George, adding that it’s much cheaper than buying veg in the shops

But the project doesn’t end there. The children already have plans to build a pagoda (a wooden frame that plants grow over, creating a shady space underneath) so that they can sit outside in the garden, and hope that each class will have their own patch of land to grow food in the future.