Eddy's Good News: Old School turns into Hydroponic Farm and a veg story closer to home

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16 May 2023, 10:21

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Every day during his show on Virgin Radio, Eddy Temple-Morris brings you Good News stories from around the world, to help inject a bit of positivity into your day!Be sure to listen each day between 10am and 1pm (Monday - Friday) to hear Eddy's Good News stories (amongst the finest music of course), but if you miss any of them you can catch up on the transcripts of Eddy's most recent stories below:

Tuesday 16th May 2023

Inspiring news from a little Canadian town that’s now getting fresh vegetables all year round from a school, except it’s not a school anymore, it’s a hydroponic farm!

Say hello to June and Jan Nel who moved to Hudson Bay from South Africa and had a great idea to turn an abandoned school into a sustainable business that makes the town a better place to live. Getting fresh greens in a Saskatchewan winter is challenging, but now it’s no problem because they’re growing all kinds of lettuces, romaine, butter, baby romaine, red romaine, green oakleaf, red oakleaf, muir, and batavia as well as kale, cucumbers, swiss chard, tomatoes and herbs too, from rocket to parsley.

People can drive past a window and get fresh veggies all year round. The whole town of around 1500 people are so delighted with how the old school has been turned into something so useful and so happy with the products that the Nels are going to have to expand into other areas of the school (at the moment they're just using the old classrooms).

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org

Credit: ITV News

Another veg growing story but much closer to home now as people in a Cornish Village have resourcefully turned a space more usually associated with the dead into something bursting with life.

Say hello to Simon Norris, from Landrake in Cornwall, who came up with the idea to turn a corner of his local church, St Matthews, into a vegetable patch to help supply freshies for food parcels for local people in need with anything leftover being shared amongst the community. From the next harvest in June, church goers who need veggies can bring a box and get it filled!

The volunteers are very respectful of the nearby graves, they pretty much all have friends buried there and know that those friends would love the idea. It's a wonderful idea and they hope to inspire churches all over the country to do the same thing.

Via: itv.com

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