Dalbeattie Primary recently held a One Planet Picnic.
This is an initiative encouraged by Eco Schools Scotland to build awareness of locally sourced food items in order to help with working towards sustainability and reducing the carbon footprint.
For their picnic, the Dalbeattie pupils created their own home baking using home grown produce.
They were also encouraged to bring in their own morning snacks, which were locally sourced, to tell their classmates about at morning breaktime at snack and chat time.
The staff are very grateful to everyone at home for supporting this event so well and were amazed by the amount of snacks children brought which had been locally sourced in some way.
There was everything from home grown apples and carrot sticks to items baked locally together with local cheese and pate.
There were some wonderful ideas of things to bring in.
The same day, the Eco Schools Group were busy, along with Mrs Houston from the high school’s hospitality department, baking individual carrot muffins using home grown vegetables.
Primary six also had a go at baking bread using some of their own home grown wheat.
