Keyhole gardens
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How to make a Keyhole Garden
Advice for two designs of the African garden

Keyhole Gardens are a great addition to any school grounds and a really useful technique used across Send a Cow projects. There are two types of designs featured here: the rocky Lesothan version and the lower East African style version. See how we made one in the UK in the Powerpoint file and then make your own and enter our competition for free! Preview videos featuring keyhole gardens from our Cabbages and Cowpats DVD using the link below.
- How_to_make_a_Keyhole_Garden_East_African_style.pdf
- How_to_make_a_Keyhole_Garden_Lesotho_style.pdf
- This_is_our_Keyhole_Garden.pdf
- Keyhole_Garden_UK.ppt
- Gardens_background.pdf
- African_Gardens_Rules.pdf
- Keyhole_Gardens_Entry_Form.pdf
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Cabbages and Cowpats DVD (+Welsh)
A fun DVD about Africa and Send a Cow

Our brand new ‘Cabbages and Cowpats’ DVD has been produced for primary schools and group use. It features short films about children’s lives in Lesotho, African gardens and Send a Cow’s work in Africa. The DVD is strong on promoting sustainability and healthy eating, it’s accompanied by toe-tapping music, engaging animations and an easy-to-follow storyline - much of it has a Welsh language option. Your kids will watch it until the cows come home! Watch some clips using the links. To buy a copy for just £6 (including p&p) call us on (01225) 874 222. Or use the order form.
www.cowforce.com/cabbages-and-cowpats
www.youtube.com/cowforceRate and read reviews of Cabbages and Cowpats DVD (+Welsh)
Categories: Visual aids, DVDs, Keyhole gardens, Geography and Other useful stuff
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Keyhole Gardens in Lesotho - video clip
Find out how Keyhole Gardens are used at home & school
School children in Lesotho show how to make a Keyhole Garden, click on the play button to find out more. This video is hosted on YouTube, if you have restricted access to this site (as is the case in some Primary schools) you will not be able to view this video online.
The high-quality version of this video can be found on our Cabbages & Cowpats DVD.
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Keyhole Gardens in action (+Welsh)
Shows a garden being used and one being made

One of these colourful Powerpoints is from a school in Lesotho who made a Keyhole Garden to provide food for their school dinners. This can also be seen on the Cabbages and Cowpats DVD (preview using YouTube link below). The other shows how Mpho helps his grandma with their garden and benefits from the healthy food. The slides could also be printed and used as display material.
- Keyhole_gardens_in_practice_Mpho.pdf
- Keyhole_Gardens_Lesotho.ppt
- Keyhole_Gardens_Lesotho_Welsh.ppt
- Mpho_Keyhole_Garden.ppt
- Cabbages_and_Cowpats_KHG_questions_Y5_6.pdf
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Keyhole garden animation
A fun introduction to special African style gardens

This fun, colourful animation from our kids site, Cowforce.com, explains why special gardens are needed in some places in Africa (like Lesotho) and how they can help a poor family. Really useful for an assembly and as an introduction to our African Gardens work in the UK. Turn your sound up to enhance the experience. We have supplied an exe file for PC that should open straight up (over 2MB) or a Quicktime file that is smaller for PC. Have fun.
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Mpho’s food miles (+Welsh)
Comparing where children's food comes from

This lesson plan focuses on where the food we eat comes from and the concept of ‘food miles’. It uses the story of Mpho - a four year old boy from Lesotho, who eats vegetables grown in his family’s Keyhole Garden. Where his food is grown is compared to where pupils get their food from, in the activity. It links well to QCA Geography Unit 8 - ‘Connecting ourselves to the world’. The .kmz file is a short Google Earth Tour showing where Mpho lives (click on it if you have Google Earth, then click on the sub-folder and play.)
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Categories: Children's stories, Comparing lives, Keyhole gardens, Geography and Other useful stuff
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